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CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



cooperi, Red-backed Mouse, Evotomys gapperi, and the Canadian 

 White-footed Mouse, Peromyscus maniculaius nuhiterrae. 



The birds are represented by such species as the Veery, 

 Hylocichla fuscescens, the Olive-backed Thrush, Hylocichla 

 ustulata swainsonii, the Golden-cro^^TLed Kinglet, Begulus 

 satrapa, the Red-breasted Xuthateh, Sitta canadensis, the Win- 

 ter Wren, Xajinus hiemalis. the Magnolia Warbler, Dendroica 

 maculosa, the Canadian Warbler, Wilsonia CanoAensis. the 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Zamelodia ludoviciana, the Barred Owl, 

 Strix varia, and the Red-tailed Hawk, Buteo horealis. 



To the purchaser of coal or oil, to the farmer or even to the 

 lumberman, Spruce mountain olfers little or nothing. But to 

 the lover of mountain air and mountain scenery, to the student 

 of nature and the collector it offers much and possesses for these 

 a peculiar interest and charm. To the former it is a l^arren 

 upheaval of rocks, with but little soil and with le^s timber. To 

 the latter it is a field for the study of a multitude of interesting 

 forms of life and of geologic formations, and a place of unpar- 

 alleled advantage from which to survey the long mountain 

 ranges of the AUeghanies and the Blue Ridge. It is difficult, 

 indeed, to imagine a region more bleak and unfruitful to some 

 and at the same time more intensely fascinating to others. The 

 mountain, however, has been robbed of half its glory by fire, 

 and its great value cannot be realized until its forests have been 

 restored. 



PLEASANTS COUNTY. 



Location and Area. 



Pleasants, formed in 1851 from parts of Wood, Tyler and 

 Ritchie, is a small, narrow county hing along the Ohio river 

 on the western border of the state. It is surrounded by the 3 

 counties from which it was formed and by Washington county. 

 Ohio. Its area is 142 square miles or 90.8S0 acres. 



Topography. 



The surface of Pleasants county can be described as hilly. 

 The descent is from numerous elevations of 1,100 feet, 1,200 

 feet and a few of 1,300 feet, along the eastern side, down to an 



