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many large old walnuts, that, though scattered, would 

 afford large quantities of valuable timber. The dog- 

 wood is abundant, and is in all parts of the county ; 

 so is the persimmon. The poplar (tulip) is not abun- 

 dant, yet there is a good quantity of this valuable tim- 

 ber in all our forests. The gums (both sweet and 

 black) are common ; so is the sycamore. Apart from 

 our original forests there are large tracts of country 

 covered with forests of pines, which is a valuable 

 local timber used in the construction of tobacco 

 houses and log dwelling houses and other buildings 

 important to the husbandman and cultivator of the 

 soil. So much of the land of Caswell is now covered 

 with a growth of trees, called here the "second 

 growth," of a mixed character, with oak, hickory, 

 pine, gum and dogwood, etc., prevailing, that it 

 sometimes proves difficult to ascertain the end of the 

 second growth and the beginning of the original 

 forest ; and there are such extensive tracts grown up 

 in young pine, which if left alone a few years will 

 become forests indeed, that it would not be an over 

 estimate to say that one-half of the land of Caswell 

 county was either in original forest or in process of 

 making forests. — G. N. T. 



Cleveland. (425 square miles.) — Cleveland Mills, 

 Aug. 25, 1882. — Our forests are composed principally 

 of the usual variety of oaks, black, red, Spanish, 

 wdiite and post oak, with some chestnut oak on the 

 high ridges and mountains, yellow pine, hickory ; and 

 on the low lands and streams white maple, beech, birch 



