283° _ _ Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The following points are in the Smoky Mountains, and many of them 
are on the State line, between North Carolina and Tennessee. an 
E. P. Hopkins’s house,...... 1995 feet. | White Rock Mountain,...... 5002 feet. 
This last is a misnomer of the hunters, being composed of a dark gneiss 
and mica slate, covered in many places with, white lichens, the most 
abundant of which are Cladonia rangiferina, and Cladonia Caroliniana. 
Mount Safford, ..<..2..05.. 6296 feet.| Old Field Knob,..... sooe ce 6220 feet, 
aos Gnry, «.<aseee- +s 6495 “ | Peck’s Peak,....sccasovves 6338 “ 
« Guyot 6734 “ | Safford’s Peak 6559 “ 
¢.« Floyd, sre estes. os 6073 “ | Mount LeConte, vere 6670 : 
“« Mingus, 5779 “ | Mount Buckley, ...... seve e 755 4 
Summit of Road Gap near 5314 * Curtis’ Peak,...0ccseeesees Cys ue 
the Alum Cave, .......... Mount Collins, ......+. veo» 6241 | 
Right Hand Gap, 5162 “ | Robert Collins House,.....- 2585 
Mount Ocona, 5978 “ 
highest at two different visits, and a mean result between the pen 
Mount Guyot is given as ascertained by the first visit, it being made ins 
more settled state of the weather. The second observation at its ae 
gave its height as 6994 feet. It is well known to those conversant W! 
the barometrical measurement of heights, that accuracy requires a series 
of observations, and it was out of our power to make them of ti 
points during the time to which we were limited by the lateness © 
skin beneath. We found the Viburnum lantanoides or hob pie 
with its straggling branches, very troublesome on the Smoky Mo Jorious 
Notwithstanding all this we have the mountains and their §' the 
scenery. ‘We encamped eleven nights on their tops; and rep sect 
stars were brighter, and the planets apparently larger than ais) sa 
from the valleys below. Then also the wonderful comet (Donat om 
the southwest luminous with its bright head and mysterious 
after the setting sun, : Ranges 
The scenery of these mountains, especially those in the See et 
abounds in precipices and deep chasms, surpassing any thing We the 
' ve seen among the White Mountains of New wee than 
spectator on the highest Smoky Peaks can enjoy a more 1 Tennesse i 
‘its towns, rivers, and the Cumberland mountains in the distanc® » otsiod “3 
neath the w On the north can be séen the Clinch my in il 
extending into Kentucky. At the northeast, east, and soutien” 
