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Level of run at P. Wilbert's, 950' 



Forks near D. Brown's, 1100 



" A. Wood's, 950' 



Forks in Branningville, 980' 



Forks near W. D. Guinnip's, 1035' 



" F. Eberspacker's, 1115' 



Forks west from J. Lovelace's, 1210' 



Forks east from W. H. Gavitt's, 1185' 



Forks at Eldred P. O., 1150' 



Forks near J. W. Goodall's, 1345' 



O C. Mitchell's, 1430' 



" J. Bartlett's, 1305' 



33. Lebanon, in Wayne county. 



This lies directly west from the northern half of Damas- 

 cus having Manchester and Buckingham townships on the 

 north. 



The greater portion of this township is a perfect wilder- 

 ness, once covered by dense forests of hemlock, but these 

 have largely disappeared through the activity of the tan- 

 neries, and the new forests are a perfect tangle of vegetation 

 through which it is almost impossible to penetrate. 



Many of the roads are mere byways filled with bowlders 

 of every size, over which one cannot drive a vehicle at a greater 

 speed than two miles per hour. With the exception of the 

 Moosic Mountain region it is probably the roughest portion 

 of Wayne county. 



The northern portion is very high, forming a drainage 

 summit ; while from almost any point in the township the 

 blue outline of the CatsJcill Mountain, one hundred miles 

 away, can be seen looking like dense cumulus clouds low 

 dowm in the horizon. 



Near the northeastern corner of this township, is a very 

 elevated peak called Big Hickory Knob, rising 400' to 500' 

 above much of the surrounding country. An attempt was 

 made to reach its summit and determine its elevation as ac- 

 curately as is possible with a barometer ; but the geologist 

 got lost in the seemingly endless forest where numberless 

 ; ' bark-roads" lead in every direction, and having been be- 

 nighted in one attempt to reach its summit, was thereafter 



