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genuine devotee of science would have incurred, demonstrated to be the 

 most elevated point of measured land east of the Rocky Mountains. We 

 say measured land, because we have long believed, and still believe that 

 there is one, if not two points, in the same range of mountains higher than 

 that one measured by Prijfessor Mitchell, from forty to sixty miles west of 

 the Black Mountain. 



If Mr. Smith will, in the next edition of his work, use language a little 

 more precise than in his last, we will concede to him the right to pro- 

 nounce Mount Mitchell one of the peaks of the Black Mountain to be 6,476 

 feet in height, and the most elevated summit that has been as yet correct- 

 ly measured in the United States. In reference to this particular peak, 

 none wijl more readily or cheerfully unite in giving it the appellation of 

 Mount Mitchell than we. It is nothing more nor less than wliat the wor- 

 thy Professor is entitled to, as discovery is the foundation of right all over 

 the world to regions previously unknown, and a great proportion of our 

 geographical nomenclature will shoAv that it frequently gives title as well 

 as right. We shall, at a leisure hour, recur to this subject, and most re- 

 spectfully invite the attention of Professor Mitchell, and other scientific 

 gentlemen to the peaks, which, in our opinion, are much higher than those 

 already measured. 



In the meantime, an esteemed friend has kindly promised to procure 

 and transmit to us for publication the interesting article of Professor 

 Mitchell, on this subject, originally published in the TtaJeifih Register, and 

 aubsequently transferred to the " American jTournal of Science,*' conducted 

 by Professor Silliman. 



During a visit to Aslieville in tlie summer of 1843, I 

 found tlie half of a large tract of land bounded for several 

 miles bj the extreme height of the Black Mountain, for 

 sale, and more for the purpose of becoming, in connection 

 mth my friend Nicholas W. TVoodfin, Esq., a proprietor of 

 Mount Mitchell, than for any other reason, I purchased 

 the moiety owned by W. B. Westall. Two years after- 

 wards, in June 1845, the tract was surveyed by jS'ehemiah 

 Blackstock, Esq. His son Robe-i: Y. Blackstock, was 

 marker, the late James P. Hardy, a member of the Palmet- 

 to Regiment who died a soldier's death in Mexico, and W. 

 F. Angel were the chain bearers. 



On Wednesday the 16th June, in company with Bishop 



