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Willard Nye, jr., informs me that the water at the dam, 6 miles from Kingston, is 
not too cold for comfortable wading, 
New Castle Hospital is at an elevation of 3,800 feet. The mean annual tempera- 
ture of the air at this height is 68°. 
NOETH CAEOLINA. 
MOUNTAINS. 
For 40 miles behind the flat region there extends as far as the lower falls of the 
rivers a belt of land of a surface moderately uneven, with a sandy soil, of which pitch 
pine is the natural growth. Above the falls the surface is undulated, and still farther, 
beyond the Yadkin and the Catawba, is an elevated region, forming part of the great 
central plateau or table-land. On the border, between this State and Tennessee, is 
found the highest land east of the Mississippi River. The two ranges known as the 
Black and Smoky Mountains are the termination of the Appalachian range; and the 
highest peak of the first, called Black Dome, rises to a height of 6,707 feet, while the 
highest peak of the second attains an elevation of 6,306 feet, and is known as Roan 
Mountain. 
RIVERS. 
Among the rivers which would seem to be best adapted for the experiment with 
the mountain mulletaretheCatawba,theBigPigeon,audtheFreuch Broad. The latter 
two may have some advantage over the first, as they fall into an elevated basin in the 
mountains of eastern Tennessee, and mingle finally with the waters of the Gulf of 
Mexico. The Yadkin may also be a suitable stream for the purpose. There are many 
streams in western North Carolina in which the brook trout abounds, and it is highly 
probable that trout streams would be entirely suitable for the mountain mullet. In 
the American Field, beginning March 10, 1888, and continuing to the present time 
(April 14), is a series of articles on trout fishing in western North Carolina. The writer 
of these articles fished the Pigeon River, in Haywood County ; also Crawford’s Creek, 
a tributary of the Big Pigeon; Shining (or Shinning) Creek; and Hungry Creek. In 
Crawford’s Creek and Shining Creek he found trout abundant. These streams are in 
the vicinity of Mount Pisgah. 
Pigeon River, in this locality, is a very rocky and rapid stream. “ There are long 
riffles, deep pools, and big overhanging rocks almost without number, and it is the 
very ideal of a trout stream. It would be a splendid stream for salmon, I should think, 
but I do not know if they could get up there from the ocean. Salmon have been 
planted in the lower waters of the Pigeon, but I do not think they can make the jour- 
ney to the sea. Perhaps the land-locked salmon might thrive in that river, but I think 
the fish would die in attempting a journey up and down the Mississippi.” 
SOUTH CAEOLINA. 
“ The alpine region of South Carolina occupies the extreme northwestern border of 
the State; commencing at King’s Mountain, in York County, it extends westward 
throughout Spartanburgh, Greenville, Pickens, and Oconee Counties, widening in the 
three last named until it embraces a tier of the most northern townships, two or three 
deep. This wedge-shaped area has a length of 114 miles, and a width varying from 8 
to 21 iniles. 
