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PREFACE. 
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Dr. J. T. E. Hard} 7 , Asheville. 
Dr. J. G. Hardv, Asheville. 
Dr. E. J. Aston, Asheville. 
Mrs. D. D. Davies, Jackson Co. 
Mrs. Albert Siler, Macon Co. 
Prof. Wm. T3eal, Murphy. 
Mr. J. N. Smith, Scotland Neck. 
Dr. Charles Jas. O’Hagan, Greenville. 
Several of these have recently commenced their observations, some of 
them in place of others who have discontinued, and some in new local- 
ities. The results of their labors will come into the next volume. 
And in addition, I take occasion here to acknowledge the hospitality, 
the courtesy, the intelligent interest, and the invaluable assistance in 
various ways, rendered by a large number of public-spirited citizens in 
every part of the state, while prosecuting the work in their vicinity. 
And in line, as to the short-comings of this report, (and I am but too 
conscious that they are many and not small), I will simply say that the 
work of the Survey, in all its stages^ to and through the tedious and 
wearisome process of publication of this volume, has been prosecuted 
under untoward conditions, discouragements, disheartening obstructions 
and depreciations which have far more than countervailed the interest 
and pleasure of the work itself, (great as these are), and have rendered it 
a burden almost beyond endurance, so that it would have been thrown 
off long ago, but that I was under the necessity of giving to the public 
the results of labor alread} 7 performed, and even of completing certain 
departments of the work partly executed. Another volume shall contain 
the remainder of the results of the field notes already in hand and of 
such additional work as is absolutely necessary to complete those parts of 
the survey which are too far advanced to be given up without serious loss, 
and then I have neither patriotism nor devotion to science enough to 
continue a labor, sufficiently onerous in itself, which, in addition, must be 
conducted under conditions which seem so incurably malign. 
