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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • The highest and "tallest" peaks in the Great Smokies: Clingman's Dome, at left (inter, and Ml. LeConte, at right, looking west from Mt. Guyot. rim of the earth is but a few miles away; beyond is mystery, enchantment." Probably the first.written reference to the name "Smoky Mountains" was made at the time of the Revolutionary War. The name is contained in an account by General Campbell, of Abingdon, Ya., in 1781, in which it was stated that John Xavier, with 150 horsemen, crossed the Great Smoky Mountains and attacked the Cherokee Indians. The first official government reference to the name "Smoky" is probably that found in the act of cession, passed in 1789 by the General Assembly of North Carolina, which, in delimiting the boundaries of North Carolina and of what is now the State of Tennessee, stated, "... thence along the highest ridge of the said mountain to the place where it is called Great Iron or Smokv Mountain." 15
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