236 THE FORESTS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



I understand that on the west side of the road from 

 Wihiiington to Goldsboro, after a few miles, there are 

 large quantities of valuable pine which has been bled 

 for turpentine, and after you pass Goldsboro a great 

 deal of very valuable timber a few miles from the 

 road (long-leaf pine). 



As soon as you strike the red lands in Wilson, 

 Nash and Halifax, you find considerable quantities of 

 oak. Running from Fishing Creek in the direction 

 of Raleigh there is a very large belt of long-leaf pine 

 of first-class quality, varying from 3 to 6 or 8 miles 

 wide, running in the direction of Raleigh. When it 

 reaches the Little River country it seems to run in a 

 direction further south, passing below Clayton, thence 

 through the State, passing the lower edge of Wake 

 and through Johnston county, through the most of 

 Harnett, Cumberland, eastern part of Richmond and 

 Robeson, being a great deal of valuable saw-mill tim- 

 ber, some of which has been bled, some not. How 

 far the line goes west of this I do not know, but my 

 recent explorations of the line from Wilson to Shoe 

 Heel show a great deal of valuable pine timber and 

 some valuable white oak. 



The belt of timber running from Fishing Creek up 

 towards Peach Tree, on towards Watson's Mill on 

 the Neuse, is one of the finest sections of timber I 

 know. 



In the Scotland Neck country, in the dividing ridge 

 between Beach Swamp and the waters of the Roa- 

 noke, thence continued on to a point between Tarboro 



