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  • "To the South-west of the gorges through which the Big Pigeon escapes from the mountains, the chain rises rapidly in high points peaks and sharp ridges, up to a remarkable conical peak called Luftee Knob" (Lufty Knob at junction Sterling Ridge and Balsam) "6,220 feet. This^tbe beginning of the Smoky Mt. chain proper, which by the general elevation both of its peaks and its crest, by its perfect continuity,; its great roughness and difficulty,, of aproach, may be called the master chain of the Appalachian System. For over 50 miles it forms a high and almost impervious barrier between Tennessee $m& and the inside basins of North Carolina. Only one tolerable road, or difficult mule path, in this whole distance is found to cross from the Great Valley of Tennessee into the interior basins of North Carolina—-----and the road reaches its summit, Road Gap("Indian Cap)" as it is called, at an elevation of not less than 5,27i,feet. It connects Sevierville, Tenn. with Webster, Jackson County, North Carolina, through the vallles of Little Pigeon and Ocona Luftee, the last of which which is the main Northern tributary of the Tuckaseegee. "Between the gorges of the Big Pigeon and the Road Gap the top of these ridges are usually sharp and rocky , deeply indented, and winding considerably, covered with a dense growth ol laurel and high trees, which makes travel over them extreealv difficult and almost impracticable. Neither the White Man nor the Indian hunter venture in the wilderness. "Beyond the Road Gap, the chain of the Smoky Mts. rises still higher, but the top of the ridges ceasesto be so rugged and sharp and will allow an easy path. One has been cut for my visit by order of Mr. Clingman from the road gap to the highest peak. About six miles South-west of the Gap is the culminating point of the Smoky Mts. Smoky Dome, or Clingman's Mt. 6,660 ft., which is thus only some 50" feet lower than the highest summit of the Black Mts. "From this point the chain graduaally descends. The black verdure of the Balsam Firs which elsewhere crown the highest summits, gives way to the green folige of the Beeches and Oaks. After a short turn to,the west it sends a long and powerful ridge called the forney Ridge to the South-west, to the Little Tennessee. From the head of the Forney Ridge the Big ./tone Mt. "(Silers Bald)" 5,614 ft., the main chain continues nearly due wsci, then curving gradually to the south-west terminates near the deep cut of the Tennessee in the Great Bald "(Gregory Bald)" 4,922 feet——All this portion of the Smoky Mts., from Forney Ridge is used by the Tenesseeane for gr&sing cattle. Numerous paths, therefore, run up the Western slopes, and along the dividing ridge. But the Eastern slope is still a wilderness, little frequented. -10-
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