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section. The timber I have named is of a good and 

 large healthy growth, from 30 to 70 feet to the first 

 limbs, from 2 to 6 feet in diameter. — J. J. C. 



Greene. (300 sq. miles.) — Hookerton, Aug. 24, 

 1882. — Oar forests consist mainly of pine. On the 

 high dry lands the original growth is pitch or long- 

 strawed pine ; most of it has been boxed or bled, and 

 consequently more or less damaged for lumber, but 

 makes excellent fence. The slashes and low, flat 

 lands have what we call slash or short-straw pine, 

 which makes excellent building lumber for all pur- 

 poses not too much exposed. The under or second 

 growth on the ridges is oak. Our swamps have oak, 

 ash, cypress, sweet gum, black gum, some hickory. 

 Oak for timber is not very abundant. Cypress, pine, 

 and gum are in abundance, though the cypress is 

 not of the best quality. Walnut is very scarce. Our 

 wooded acreage is about equal to the arable land. 

 Say one-half our area is in wood ; about two-thirds 

 of this is covered with pine, mostly long-leaf. All 

 of the second growth of pine is short-leaf ; some of 

 that makes good timber. — W. P. O. 



Granville. (750 sq. miles.) — Sassafras Fork, 

 Aug. 26, 1882. — In this county the prevailing growth 

 is white and post oak, hickory, and pine. In the 

 northern part of the county about three-fourths is 

 in original growth ; the balance about one-half. — 

 R. O. G. 



Halifax. (710 sq. miles.) — Scotland Neck, Sept. 

 18, 1882. — The timber in our forests consists of long 



