286 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
VY. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
. Mountains of North Carolina — Tennessee; by 8. B. Buoxuer, 
Kieserncstanted for this Journal).—During the summer of 1835, Pro 
fessor Elisha Mitchell of Chapel Hill | Tabversity, North Carolina, meas 
ured the highest point of the Black Mountain in that State, and 
announced its height to be 6476 feet. His stationary barometer was 
at Morganton, which he estimated to be 968 feet above the ses The 
late railroad surveys show that the Morganton depot is 1169 feet high; 
barometer in 1835, is 6708 feet. This measurement of 1835 was first 
published in the Raleigh Register, and again in Silliman’s Journal ia 
1839, with some additional remarks by Dr. M., in which he alludes to 
eat apparent height of the mountains in Haywood co county, 
also to the highest in the Great Smoky Range ighland Messe 
ger, published at Asheville, near the Black Mount, in ser when allad- 
ing to Dr. M.’s measurement of it, says: “Ww 
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concede the name of Mount Mitchell to that paren ne 
Mountain which Prof. Mitchell, after a degree © f labor and es 
which none other than a genuine devotee of science ps have er a 
demonstrated to be the most elevated point of measured land east ve 
nf Mountains. _ We say measure red ar a we have ng FA 
Advocate at St. Louis, Missouri, We hav e quo oted it, because his sil 
td are probably the two highest which gia — recently me 
the Smoky ane about sixty miles nearly w 
In the Transactions of the Smithsonian omni e for 1855, } vid 
highest point of W 
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Mitchell’s corrected height of the same poin Sagi 
has since found its height to be 6711 feet ad in 1856 Prof. cu 
series of barometrical observations, ascertal t to be 670} 
true height, 
- Prof. Mitchell in 1838 and 1844 again visited cae riggs fase 
at which time his stationary barometer was at Ashevill 
Measurements, then made, are coun Eos 
