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GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 
Alumina, 
12.46 
11.47 
14.61 
6.97 
Oxide of Iron, 
3.57 
4.27 
13.74 
4.07 
Lime, 
0.51 
1.64 
1.17 
0.10 
Magnesia, 
0.33 
0.14 
1.69 
0.29 
Potash, 
0.16 
2.42 
2.38 
0.11 
Soda, 
0.45 
1.09 
0.70 
Phosphoric A cid, 
0 09 
0.08 
0.15 
(>.05 
Sulphuric Acid, 
0.02 
0.04 
0.03 
trace. 
Chlorine, 
trace. 
trace. 
trace. 
0.06 
Organic Matter, 
4.60 
5.49 
7.25 
6.65 
Water, 
1.07 
1.30 
2.05 
1.10 
Sulphide of Iron, 
0.11 
0.03 
0.05 
Number 56 is from the forest 
in the 
suburbs of the town of 
Hickory, 
Catawba county, the growth being small to medium sized oaks, black- 
jack, dogwood, sourwood and pine. This locality is on the top of a broad 
fiattish ridge, some 3 miles from the Catawba River and more than 300 
feet above it. The soil is light colored and evidently sandy, a little 
ochreous with iron oxide. The analysis is of a fair soil, having all the 
substances required by the cultivated plants in pretty good proportions. 
No. 57, from the wood at the railroad bridge near Morganton, is plainly 
of a much better composition, having a very large percentage of lime and 
potash, and is well adapted to the production of tobacco. The growth is 
much more luxuriant than in the preceding case, consisting of oaks, 
hickory, dogwood and pine. This is also a light yellowish sandy loam. 
The last two are representative soils, standing as good averages for the 
respective regions for several miles around 
No. 58 is a representative of the best class of uplands in Caldwell 
county. The specimen was obtained from the high ridge 100 yards above 
the college in Lenoir, in a heavy oak grove. It is a red soil from the 
abundance of iron, and contains, like the specimen from Morganton, re- 
markable percentages of the alkalis and alkaline earths, and so is notably 
adapted to the production of tobacco, as well as grain crops. 
Number 59 is a yellowish brown colored soil from a high chesnnt 
ridge in Mitchell county, a terminal spur of the Little Yellow Mountains 
in the bend of the North Toe River, 3 or 4 miles south of Wiseman’s at 
the Toe R, crossing. The growth is chesnut, Spanish oak, chesnut oak, 
sourwood, ivy, (kalmia), and much wild indigo ; a combination which is 
always indicative of infertility. The analysis shows low percentages of 
most of the valuable soil ingredients. The soil is gravelly, and the rock 
particles are not thoroughly decomposed ; and the infertility arises as 
