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and chestnut oaks, yellow or short-leaf pine, ash, wal- 

 nut, hickory, beech, birch, mahogany, cliestnut, ma- 

 ple, poplar, etc. Wooded acreage is about three- 

 fourths of the county, and one-half of whole county 

 is in oaks, pine, hickory, etc. — R. R. G. 



Transylvania. (440 square miles.) — Zachary's, 

 Sept. 14, 1882. — This county from north to south is 

 34 miles ; from east to west, 29 miles. The valley of 

 the French Broad is from one to five miles wide, and 

 about 20 miles long within this county. With the 

 exception of said valley (and it has a great deal of 

 young oak timber), the county is almost one unbroken 

 forest. There is an abundance of the various kinds 

 of oak, chestnut, hickory, poplar, white and spruce 

 pine, and in some portions good yellow pine, some 

 walnut, cherry, beech, mountain birch, locust (in 

 abundance), linn, buckeye, etc., with all the various 

 kinds of small timber peculiar to a ridge country. — 

 J. Z. 



Tyrrell. (325 sq. miles.)— Tyrrell County, Oct. 

 3, 1882. — Our forests are of long-leaf pine, oak, juni- 

 per, gum, ash and cypress. The wooded acreage is 

 at least 75 per cent., 50 per cent, of juniper and c}^- 

 press ; 25 per cent of pine and oak. — W. 11. H. C. 



Wake. (1,050 sq. miles.)— Ralcigli, Oct. 27, 1882. 

 — A greater variety of timber trees are to be found 

 in Wake County than in any other county in the 

 State. In point of value the long-leaf pine comes first, 

 covering at least one-third of the area of the county, 

 and extending from the Johnslon to the Chatham line, 



