2545 THE FORESTS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



in some instances it is only two or three feet below 

 the surface. 



In Pender County, east of the Wilmington & Weldon 

 Railroad, owned by citizens, of overflowed land, in 

 square miles, 31 



Owned by the State, 175 



206 



In the interior of Holly Shelter Pocoson there are 

 known to be drain bottoms or basins extending nearly 

 across the entire length of the pocoson, which is 40 

 miles long ; these basins are covered by a fine growth 

 of cypress timber. About two thirds of this pocoson 

 is in Pender County, the remainder in Onslow. But 

 it would be impossible to give a correct estimate of 

 the area of this great interior basin of timber ; as this- 

 pocoson has never been fully explored, nor even 

 crossed except at the most accessible points. 



There are also great bodies of timber, viz. : cypress,, 

 oak, ash, poplar, maple, sweet gum, holly and sour 

 gum, in the basins of Angola Pocoson and the North- 

 East River Swamp ; this river swamp extends across 

 the entire County and is from one to two miles wide. 



In this swamp, maples 3 feet through are common ; 

 holly is found 2i feet in diameter ; sweet gums from 

 8 to 9 feet through are found, and occasionally swamp 

 pines are found that are from 5 to 7 feet in diameter. 



It is more than probable that if all the cypress 

 timber in Pender County was separated and laid down 

 in one body that it would make (60) sixty square 



