ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Plate I. The University Domain Frontispiece 



II. Fig. 1. — A rocky escarpment separates plateau from cove. Fig. 2. — 



View of a cove 8 



III. Plateau types. Fig. 1.— Hickory Slope. Fig. 2.— Bottom 16 



IV. Cove types. Fig. 1. — The best growth is on Northerly Slope. Fig. 



2.— Southerly Slope is dry and its timber is poor 16 



V. Damage done by fire. Fig. 1. — Land burned over every year. Fig. 



2. — Black Gum still alive, though burned to a shell 16 



VI. Effects of fire. Fig. 1. — Leafless saplings in foreground killed by fire. 

 Fig. 2. — Yellow Oak, hollowed by fire and fungi, finally broken 



by wind 16 



VII. Bad effects of grazing. Fig. 1. — Seedlings stripped of their leaves by 



cows. Fig. 2. — Land grazed every year 24 



VIII. "Drumming." Fig. 1. — Drawing the log from the cove to the 

 plateau. Fig. 2. — The log finally ascends the plateau by the help 



of a chute 24 



IX. Fig. 1. — Bowlders make logging difficult. Fig. 2. — Good trees grow 



on the upper slopes 24 



X. Fig. l. — The large tree should be removed for the good of the forest. 

 Fig. 2. — These White Oaks are limby because they grew too much 



in the open 24 



XL The Sewanee mill. Fig. 1. — Logs from the Sewanee forest. Fig. 



2. — Lumber ready for shipment 32 



XII. Logging at Sewanee. Fig. 1. — Hauling logs in Block I. Fig. 2. — 



Young growth left after lumbering 32 



