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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Court House, Woolly Ridge, Gunstick Laurel, Rip Shin Thicket, Wooly Head Slick, Big Slick, Cage Drive Slick, Ivy Stalks, Little Slick and many others. While the heath balds are entirely covered with the close- grown rhododendron and laurel, the grassy balds resemble open, grassy plains, with very little plant life other than the grass itself'. Cherokee folk-lore ascribes supernatural origin to the grassy "balds." 'There was once, the Cherokee legend states, a giant hornet, the ulagu, which devoured little Indian children. After great difficulties, the ulagu was slain and the Great Spirit decreed that, in the future, the tops of the highest mountains be bare of trees, so that the Indians could keep lookouts in ct.se of a visitation from another idagu. Concerning the grassy balds, Dr. Cain has written: "These treeless areas (balds) on the peaks and higher ridges 01 the southern Smokies are conspicuous features of the landscape. The trees begin to show striking form changes at Rhododendron C 'atawbiense. 99
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