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Perquimans. (225 sq. miles.) — Hertford, Sept. 

 29, 1882. — We have in this county pine, cypress, 

 juniper, gums, oak, ash, beech, Avith a sprinkling of 

 hickory, walnut, maple, dogwood, holly, and poplar. 

 Long-leaf pine is the prevailing growth of the higli 

 lands, and cypress and juniper of the swamp lands. 

 Our pine lands have been in a large measure denuded 

 of late years ; 400,000,000 feet of pine timber have 

 been carried from this county to Norfolk and Balti- 

 more in the log in the last ten years. There still 

 remain about 10,000 acres uncut of pine, and about 

 the same quantity of cypress and juniper. — T. G. S. 



Person. (400 sq. miles.) — Winstead, Sept. 20, 

 1882. — We have in our original forest in this county 

 all of the oaks, hickory, short-leaf pine, poplar, some 

 walnut, beech, birch, sweet and black gum, sour- 

 wood, dogwood, etc. Our second growth consists 

 mainly of pine, the gums, persimmon, elm, etc. This 

 county is twenty miles square, and I suppose the 

 original wooded acreage to be one-eighth of the 

 whole ; the second growth, one-lialf of the whole. 

 Original growth divided about as follows: pine, one- 

 fourth ; oak, one-third ; hickory, one-eighth ; the re- 

 mainder being poplar, beech, birch, walnut, etc. ; the 

 second growth mainly pine, which makes fine build- 

 ing material, etc. — A. J. H. 



Pitt. (825 sq. miles.)— Pitt County, Oct. 16, 1882. 

 — The kinds of timber are pine, cypress, oak, gum, 

 poplar ; the prevailing growth, pine and cypress. The 

 wooded acreage I can only estimate from the lands 



