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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Cktroket Indian veterans of the Ihomas Legion, which built the first road across the Great Smokies during the War Between the States. H828-1887), a native of Waynesville, N. C, who served as State auditor of North Carolina from 1877 to 1881, and in whose honor Mt. Love was named. Clingman had Robert Collins, one of the first settlers on 0«ma Luftee, whom Guyot termed "the greatest authority around the peak," cut a path, six miles long, from Indian Gap t() the top of the mountain. 'This enabled Guyot to take there !l1'' fust horse ever seen on those heights. Guyot's measurements gave Clingman's Dome a height of 6,660 feet, only SI feet lower than Mt. Mitchell. For many years the height of Mt. Mitchell was placed at 6,711 feet, but the U. S. Geographic Board reported only a few years ago that "the latest ('°rrect altitude for Mt. Mitchell, as ascertained by the C. S. Geological Survey, is 6,684 feet." Latest measurements place th<" height of Clingman's Dome at 6,642 feet. The work of these m initios and explorers served useful Purposes, including the establishment of the fact that the 77
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