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and Williamston, there is another valuable belt of 

 long-leaf pine timber. 



On the Roanoke there are localities in which young 

 walnut seems to spring up along the hedge rows as 

 old-Held pine does in other localities. I judge from 

 the manner in which it springs up that it could be 

 grown with ease in this district. Also in many other 

 sections walnut could be grown. 



It is not in my power to give you the wood acreage 

 and the acreage covered by prevailing species. You 

 will find the timber indicated more by geological for- 

 mation. As soon as you get into red or rocky lands the 

 long-leaf pine disappears, and oak and hickorj^ take its 

 place. As you pass the Granite Falls there are gum 

 swamps and cypress sw r amps. A description of one is 

 a description of all. A description of one section of 

 long-leaf pine country is nearly a description of all. 



The long-leaf pine extends above the line of Gran- 

 ite Falls on Fishing Creek, Neuse River, Smiley *s 

 Falls, and the Falls in the Yadkin, varying at different 

 points. Not a great deal of long-leaf pine in the 

 secondary formation — it is principally confined to the 

 tertiary. The various river bottoms of the Neuse, 

 the Cape Fear, the Tar and the Roanoke, never had 

 long-leaf pine on them. This soil seems to have been 

 made from settlings from the up country. What 

 there is in the tertiary formation that produces long- 

 leaf pine, and what there is in the secondary forma- 

 tion that precludes its growth except on the ridges, I 

 cannot tell. — R. R. B. 



