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walnut, poplar, ash, sugar maple, silver maple, etc. 

 There is a large acreage of spruce pine, and there 

 are large quantities of birch, beech, mahogany, cu- 

 cumber, locust, wild cherry, buckeye, etc. The 

 wooded acreage is about seventy per cent. — J. W. T. 



Bladen. (1,000 sq. miles.) — Elizabethtown, Sept. 

 7, 1882. — Long-leaf pine is the prevailing growth, 

 except on the river and creeks, where there are 

 hickory, different kinds of oak, some walnut, ash, 

 etc. My estimate is that nine tenths of the county 

 is in timber. — J. A. M. 



Brunswick. (975 sq. miles.) — Town Creek, Sept. 

 11, 1882.— All of our uplands are long-leaf pine and 

 scrub oaks. Our bays and swamps abound with cy- 

 press, ash, poplar, juniper, and gum. On the sea-coast 

 from Cape Fear to the South Carolina line there is live- 

 oak and cedar, valuable for ship-building. — E. W. T. 



Brunswick,Columbus, Bladen, Robeson, Rich- 

 mond, Anson, Union, Mecklenburg, Lincoln, 

 Gaston, Cleveland. (Area, 7,675 sq. miles.) Route 

 of Carolina Central Railroad. — Shoe Heel, Aug. 24, 

 1882. — Brunswick County has a wood acreage of 

 about two thirds. Prevailing growths are pine, 

 cypress, and oak, of which one half is pine. 



Columbus County has a wood acreage of about two 

 thirds. Prevailing growths are pine, oak, and cypress, 

 of which one half is pine. 



Bladen County has a wood acreage of about two 

 thirds. Prevailing growths are pine, oak, and cy- 

 press, of which one half is pine. 



