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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQT/ 



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The families of the mountaineers are remarkable in many cases 

 for their large size and there were seen examples of longevity and 

 virility which it would be hard to find in our cities. One of the 

 accompanying pictures shows the three younger children of Mr. 

 Henderson, 83 years old. They are by his second (or third) wife 

 and his children number 21 in all, a fair proportion of whom are 

 still living. 



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Fig. 52. — E. Cornett, 24 years old, mountains of eastern 

 Tennessee. 



There are all grades of " mountaineers "" and no line of demarka- 

 tion separates them from the people in the lower lands, who are 

 mostly of similar derivation and sometimes of the same families. 

 But as one proceeds into the wilds of the mountains, the population 

 becomes sparser and more backward, the cultivated patches of ground 

 smaller in area, and the habitations poorer, until some of the latter 

 come to resemble the shacks of the southern negro. 



