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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • park, Clingman's Dome, or Mount Guyot, which are higher than Mount LeConte measuring from sea level. Mount Le- Conte's elevation, measuring from sea level, is 6,593 feet, but it is 5,301 feet, or a mile and 21 feet, above its immediate base. No one knows how the Great Smokies received their name. The Cherokee Indians had no name for the whole region. For generations the white settlers have called them the Smoky Mountains, or Smokies. However, said Horace Kephart, "any visitor in the Smokies can see for himself what suggested the symbolism. Nearly always there hovers over the high tops and around them, a tenuous mist, a dreamy blue haze, like that of Indian summer, or deeper. Often it grows so dense as almost to shut out the distant view, as smoke does that has spread from a far-off forest fire. Then it is a 'great smoke' that covers all the outlying world; the Mt. LcCcnte. Left is Balsam Point; center, Cliff Top; right center, High Top; extreme right, Myrtle Point. 14
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