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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Cloud shadows on Mt. Guyot, looking north front Mt. Chapman. the Atlantic Ocean and between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, being not more than 500 miles distant from each of these extremes. It is unequalled as a sanctuary for bird and animal life and as a botanical garden and arboretum, preserving as it does the largest remnant of the American wilderness in the East. The national park, when all the acreage has been acquired, will have an area of 465.18 square miles and will contain a minimum of 427,000 acres practically evenly divided between North Carolina and Tennesse. It is seventh in size among the twenty-two parks in the national system, being exceeded only by the Yellowstone, Mount McKinley, Glacier, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks in the order named. The park area is made up of one main mountain range, the Great Smokies, which are the central and principal feature of the region, and parts of two cross ranges, the Balsam Mountains and the Chilhowee Mountains. The Great Smoky Mountains comprise the lofty watershed which 11
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