ae 
Pies Moers. 
178 A, Guyot on the Appalachian Mountain System. 
Great Valley .* the very foot of the plateaus of the northwest, 
w down e sole channel of the Tennessee to the basin of 
the Mississippi 
As many of the names of mountains given below in the list 
of the Meiats measured are new, I may be allowed a few words 
on the subject of mountain nomenclature. 
It is a mistake to suppose that names have been given to even 
the most tea points in the mountains of the Appalachian 
stem. Just in the wildest and most elevated regions, such as 
western North Calin os i. the great majority of them 
have yet to ben In a country without a regular chart, and 
in the midst of mote rebels: visited, far from any human habi- 
tation, and in places where the primitive idhabitanta have disap- 
pear red, mane) searcely a ned * their traditions, it is not sul 
be the cas 
always be identified, or afterwards traced upon a chart. Itis, 
ane almost a matter of necessity for him to sketch such & 
while proceeding, and to name, either ill or well, the points 
demetnwed by his observations. A good geographic nomencla- 
ture, however, is not an easy thing; the =ctinat of the United 
States proves this. 
happily without mea In the south ring are rarely 
applied to mousey aba the Tridiat name of a river whi 
to a neighboring chain of — 
tains. Indian names, designating special mountain peaks, ate 
not common, per erhaps because not preserved by the white se 
tion. The more modern descriptive names have the defect ¢ 
