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Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Land of the Everlasting Hills

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  • From Rainbow Falls to the Tennessee River ■■iii HEN WATER starts out to seek the level of the sea from a spring on the top of Mount LeConte, it makes more than five thousand feet of its descent within the distance of a few miles! Starting at an elevation of 5680 feet, it courses down the side of the mountain by way of Rainbow Falls, dashes over the rocky bed of Mill Creek, on into Pigeon river near Gatlinburg, where the altitude is about 1200 feet. The >w is thence to the French Broad river, which comes down from Smokies on the North Carolina side, and joins with the Holston river five miles from Knoxville, these two streams at that point forming the Tennessee river, whose waters finally reach the Gulf through the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. I "The charm of the | Smokies, and their eco- I nomic value to the I nation as well, is due I in great part to their lH abundant stream flow." No standing water is to be found in the Smokies, which means, also, no mosquitoes. The "little journey" indicated by the pictures on this page, is that which has been referred to as "From Rainbow Falls to the Tennessee River," and shows the course of the stream from near the top of LeConte to a point near Knoxville, as follows: 1.—Rainbow Falls, on Mount LeConte, along the trail leading to the top. 2.—Mill Creek, below Rainbow Falls. 3.^Mill Creek, near its junction with Pigeon River above Gatlinburg. 4.—Pigeon River at Gatlinburg. 5.—Pigeon River below Gatlinburg. 6.—French Broad River near its junction with Pigeon River. 7.—Tennessee River, below the "Forks," where it has its source in the merging of the French Broad and the Holston rivers. vMfW '■x. Development of power plants in this region has in no way detracted from the scenery.
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