APPENDIX A 



Swamp Land Timber in Duplin and Pender. 

 — Kenansville, April 4, 1883. — Without doubt, Du- 

 plin and Pender Counties have the largest known 

 bodies of cypress timber this side of the lower 

 Mississippi bottoms. 



Citizens own in Duplin County of pure mud swamps 

 in square miles, 80 



State owns in Duplin County of pure mud swamps 



in square miles, 25 



Making in all, 105 



At least 30 miles square of this swamp land may 

 be considered as cypress timber ; and about the same 

 amount is gum ; there are about 5 miles square, each, 

 of sweet gum and ash. The remainder is made up 

 of a growth of poplar, maple, spruce pine, hickory, 

 birch, holly, elm, oak and hornbeam. 



In this county (Duplin) there are large bodies of 

 cork gum, known as " tasteless wood^^ very valuable 

 for packing-boxes for bread, cakes and candies ; it is 

 similar to the Mississippi river bottom gum, used in 

 St. Louis, Mo., for packing crackers for shipment to 

 India. 



A portion of the swamps of Duplin and Pender 

 are remarkable for being underlaid with marl ; and 



