Southern Appalachian Digital Collections

Western Carolina University (20) View all

Guyot and the Great Smokies

  • wcu_great_smoky_mtns-10296.jpg
16 / 27
Item
  • map*, accompanying the wauseript. Skay of the semes given by Guyot have not eurvived| some have proven to be very transitory but the list hat saioh historical value. one notices *sany carious things on the map. She Mt. Sterling of today was then *Wu Starling'* perhaps sasrely an sx&ot rendering of the local pronunciation. fhe llstief elevations eontaias seme names which do not appear on the mp, such as Belahardt Gap (the present dorter's Gap) ©nd fiumeMsvter aad &avea waob la the Balsam Chain, near its junction with Smoky. Gap Knob between Hughes hldge and set. Guyot le omitted froa the list1, The present day lew-found Gap, through ehlch the highway crosses Smoky, appears on the map as "Eight Hand Gap*, while in the list ef eletatiene it it wttew Gap*. $b* asp has settled controverted points of nomenclature, for iaatazae, it sho*s the original lecatlom of .mt. Collins, west of the present day Indian Gap. Contrary to local opinion the original Mt. Guyot was never en the- Cocke-Sevier County line at the heed of the f'iaaeole lead. ai« p#ak, so located, is Guyot's St. Henry, the Guyot ssap gained sosse local eurreaoy for it is the basis of the map prepared la 1880 by state Geologist w« C« Kerr for the forth Carolina "Separtaaont of Agriculture sad used la that mountain classic "Heart of the illegheniea* by f, 8. Sieglor and £. 8. Grosscup. She graphic location of -fee peaks and seoeiapaaylag elevations ea the map, coupled with the requisite familiarity with the region, have solved the riddle of "Guyot** Pete*. Ihere le la the Guyot wauseript one very curious error* in the light of present day knowledge* and it is,perhaps# the only error. Guyot stays i I. fhe original map oaaaot be located, 'fhe copy la the library of tho Coast end Geodetic Survey le a photograph of the original map. A negative of an enlarged photograph of the Greet £meky section of the map has been deposited in the L»Msoa*IeGhee Ubrary at laoxville, '3?sjw#
Object