238 THE FORESTS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



Northampton. (525 sq. miles.) — Rich Square, 

 Sept. 7, 1882. — We have here almost every tree 

 known, but principal growth is pine and oak on the 

 high lands, with gum and cypress in the swamps. 

 The hills or high lands are also interspersed with 

 hickory, walnut, dogwood, and maple, and many 

 other varieties in less quantity. I suppose one half 

 the county is in forests, and one half that is thickly 

 set in long-leaf pine. In the lower end of the county 

 we have large quantities of the various kinds of oak 

 and hickory, some walnut, sap pine (known as short- 

 leaf), maple in abundance, etc. Then there are three 

 large swamps in or partly in the county, which 

 abound in magnificent C3^press trees and the different 

 kinds of gum. — J. C. J. 



Orange. (675 sq. miles.) — Hillsboro, Sept. 8, 

 1882. — Our forest timbers are oak, hickory, gum, 

 cedar, pine, elm, maple, walnut, sycamore, beech, 

 birch. The prevailing growth is oak. One third of 

 Orange is in forest, mostly oak. — J. W. 



Onslow. (725 sq. miles.) — Richlands, Aug. 22, 

 1882. — The long-leaf pines are the principal growth. 

 There is a large quantity of waste or barren poor 

 piney woodland, interspersed with strips of pocoson 

 which have cypress and juniper. On the rivers and 

 creeks are fine poplar, dogwood, holly, beech, maple, 

 and sweet gum. The old fields are covered with 

 spruce or short-straw pines. Elm, white oak, red 

 oak, and hickory abound in the swamps and low 

 ground, and the plantations have on their edges per- 



