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are two thousand feet above the sea, and the general level of the 
country, exclusive of the mountain ranges, may be estimated at 
twenty-five hundred feet above tide-water. Haywood County 
and Haywood. From the west side of this extends a ridge, which 
terminates near the head of Fines Creek. A rter of a mile 
rom its western end, as one moves it toward the east, is the 
locality referred to. The effect of the disturbance is visible near 
the crest of the ea extends in a direction nearly south, 
down the side of the little mountain, four or five h ed yards, 
to the level ground, and across it for some distance and along the 
elevations beyond. The whole extent ma a mile in length, 
poin 
is perhaps three or four hundred feet higher than the ground be- 
low. i 
appears to be composed, but the chief evidences of violence were 
b 
een a narrow crevice. On their sides the saplings grew perpen- 
dicularly to the surface of the ground, but obliquely to the horizon, 
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width to split the tree, and that then the sides of the chasm had 
returned to their original position without having slipped, so as to 
prevent the contact of the broken roots. : 
hen I was there I was told that three years had elapsed since 
the last previous shock. They were first noticed about the year 
