INDEX. 205 



Page. 



Region, the Southern Appalachian 17 



essentially mountainous 113 



source of rivers 28 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, preliminary 166 



present 13 



scope of 15 



Bureau of Forestry 43 



Geological Survey 110 



Senate Committee on Forest Reservations and Protection of Game. . 168 



Weather Bureau 145 



Reproduction of forests 69 



to be considered in lumbering 68 



Reserve. ( See Forest Reserve. ) 



Reservoirs, lack of 129 



Resolutions. {See Memorials.) ' 



Rhododendron 118 



Richland Balsam 51,115 



Rivers of Southern Appalachians, drainage of 28,116 



falls of. (See Waterfalls.) 



floods in. (See Floods. ) 



gorges of 29, 126 



grades in 116 



importance of, for agriculture, power, navi- 

 gation 28,29,38 



velocity and volume 117 



(See particular names. ) 



River Basins, description of forests by _ 69 



(See also under Forests, description of. ) 

 Birch. {See Bii-ch.) 



flow, direction of 115 



gorges, depths, and beauty 126 



grades 116, 117 



systems 115 



Roan Creek Mountains, gaging stations on 136 



description 18,46, 115, 121 



topography, forests, burns 49 



Roanoke River, floods in 1901 130 



gaging stations 136 



water power on 141 



Rocks. (See Granite, Quartz, Gneiss, Limestone, etc.) 



relation of, to surface 120 



solution and disintegration of 120 



strike, dip, distribution, etc 119 



Rogers Mountain, height 47 



Roosevelt, President, message to Congress 3 



Rough Hackberry. (See ffackberri/.) 



Ruby Falls 19,139 



Run-off of water, regulated by forests 128, 131, 150 



recent changes in 137 



S. 



Saluda River, drains to Atlantic 116, 126 



gaging stations on 135, 136 



