218 THE FORESTS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



Black, sweet and other gums, . . 300,000,000 £t. 



Juniper, 60,000,000 " 



Beech, 50,000,000 " 



White, water and red oak, . . . 50,000,000 " 



Besides considerable quantities of dogwood, hick- 

 ory, bull bay, mulberry ; and in river bottoms and 

 adjacent, sycamore and black walnut. — J. D. W. 



Cumberland, Harnett, Moore, Chatham, 

 Randolph, Guilford, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, 

 Yadkin, Wilkes, Caldwell, Mitchell. (Area 

 7,656 square miles.) Route of Cape Fear and Yadkin 

 Valley Hailroad. — Extracts from Special Report of 

 State Creologist Kerr. — " The above facts — the variety 

 of soils, the wide range of temperature, and the 

 abundant rainfall, have, of course, found expression 

 in a correspondingly great range of natural products, 

 the flora having a really continental breadth and va- 

 riety, from the palmetto and live oak on the one hand, 

 to the white pine and Canadian fir on the other, so 

 that what I have said in the geological report of the 

 variety and richness of the forests of the entire State 

 may be applied with scarce a modification to this 

 tract, which includes both the extremes that gave its 

 unique breadth of climatic and botanical character- 

 istics to the whole. That is, there are about one 

 hundred species o:^ woods — more than in all Europe ; 

 of twenty-two species of oaks in the United States 

 (east of the Rocky Mountains), nineteen are found 

 here ; all (eight) of the pines ; four out of five 

 spruces ; all (five) of the maples ; both of the wal- 



