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simmon trees, plum and mulberry. There are some 

 walnut trees, on the farms principally, and a few in 

 the woods. There is at least sixty per cent, of the 

 acreage of forest in the pine woods, — in many places 

 splendid timber of the yellow long-leaf pine for saw- 

 mills. The cedar tree also is interspersed all over 

 the county, and may be found in the swamps and on 

 plantations. Ash of the finest quality and in great 

 abundance prevails in the low grounds and on the 

 creeks and rivers, with a large quantity of sugar 

 maple. New River, in Onslow, has timber in abun- 

 dance on it, and steam saw-mills would do a good 

 business ; could saw pine, cedar, gum, juniper, oak, 

 ash, hickory, holly, beech, dogwood. There is an 

 abundance of willow in the low grounds. — J. H. F. 



Pamlico. (875 sq. miles.) — Stonewall, Sept. 1, 

 1882. — We have all kinds of trees in our forest that 

 are known in the State except chestnut. The pre- 

 vailing growth is on our outlands, long and short 

 straw pine, with oak (red and white), hickory, holly, 

 etc. ; and in the swamp, yellow poplar, sweet and 

 black gum, ash, juniper, and the over-cup and chest- 

 nut oak, etc. The wooded acreage of our county is 

 at least nine-tenths of the whole. — J. S. L. 



Pasquotank. (240 sq. miles.) — Elizabeth City, 

 Aug. 30, 1882. — There are two distinct classes of 

 timber in north-eastern North Carolina — swamp tim- 

 ber and upland timber. The most valuable swamp 

 timber is juniper and cypress, vast quantities of 

 which have been and are still being cut and carried 



