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tends as far up as eighty miles from Goldsboro. On 

 the uplands and on the rivers and creeks through 

 this section you find it more extensively grown with 

 poplar, sweet gum, maple, cypress, hickory, and some 

 black walnut, ash, etc. The acreage in this section 

 is about half in forest, mostly of the original growths. 

 Dogwood and sour-wood grow very extensively in 

 some parts of this section on the uplands, creek and ^ 

 river bottoms. 



From the lower edge of Orange County to the 

 upper edge of Alamance County to Company Shops, 

 you will find the post oak and white oak still in most 

 places to be the prevailing species both on up and 

 lower lands, mixed with red oak, black oak, hickory, 

 ash, maple, sweet gum, walnut, dogwood, and sour- 

 wood. Cedar grows somewhat in this section, though 

 not generally of very large size. The acreage is not 

 quite half in the original forest, the lands having 

 been more extensively cleared, and the old-field pine 

 not growing up so readily on these red lands as in 

 more sandy sections. — W. P. R. 



Greensboro, October 14, 1882. — In Alamance 

 County, west of Shops, the kinds of timber are oak, 

 short-leaf pine, hickory, sweet and black gum, dog- 

 wood, maple, and poplar. The prevailing growth is 

 of oak and hickory. The wooded acreage is about 

 one-half of the original entire acreage. The acreage 

 covered by prevailing growth is about three-eighths 

 of original entire acreage. 



In Guilford County the kinds of timber are oak. 



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