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Guyot and the Great Smokies

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  • /' t Set -3 o nm-mimmmm ABMOia OUXOf AM> THE QitKATf SMOKIES- // .'' /f by Paul K. Fink and Jiyron H. Avery. \ $ Arnold Ouyet waa the soat extensive sad exhaustive explorer that the Appalachian Mountain system has ever known. Froet its northern terminus in Hew I'ngland to the end of the ^lue hidge in Oeargla, Guyot followed the Appalachian Chain south. It waa his purpose to record the elevation of the various peaks of this range and to develop a general, systemstie geographic outline of ths mountain systems of the eastern United stats*. Such exttnslve familiarity with, the Appalachian Chain has never been possessed by any other person and It is highly improbable that such knowledge will ever again be acquired. To this man, Arnold Cuyot, waa given the inestimable privilege of knowing the Appalachians in their thoroughly primitive condition. On© rea&e the Guyot ffienuaeripfc with the same eager searching for cements on local history and geography, as in examining the Journals of the two Mtchauxs, to whoa the Smoky region was too utterly remote and iaaeoeaglhle. «ith the exception of place nasaes, indicating an unaietafeahlo local origin, the mjor portion of the Saoky Mountains* nomenclature either originated with or beoacse fixed as a result of Guyot's baroiaotrioal surveys, m&e prior to the Civil tar. As a momorial to the wan himself there is not only tho aonutaent of the most massive poalc in eastern Smoky "but the equally expressive century old names of many other peaks in the v*ti$»* Arnold Cuyot was a Swiss, Ivtn at leuohatel in 1007. His interest in mountains is traced to his association with Louis Agassis, whose name is a by-word in American ecology. Quyot*© association with
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