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Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Land of the Everlasting Hills

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  • :'THE SMOKIES WERE HOARY WITH AGE WHEN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS WERE MEWLING INFANTS IN THE LAP OF MOTHER NATURE."—eobeet Lindsay mason The Smoky Range is Sixty-Five Miles Long! SURVEYS by Professor Arnold Guyot in 1856-60 enabled him to enumerate a total of thirty-seven peaks in the Great Smoky Mountains. Referring to this immense range, Professor Guyot said: "It presents on that extent of sixty-five miles (full length of the Smokies) a continuous series of high peaks and an average elevation not to be found in any other district. The gaps or depressions never fall below 5000 feet except towards the southwest, and the number of peaks the altitude of which exceeds 6000 feet is indeed very large." MOUNT LeCONTE AS SEEN FROM THE STATE HIGHWAY BETWEEN GATLINBURG AND ELKMONT
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Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).