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Guyot and the Great Smokies

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  • / An cxsminatioa ef Guyot's route possibly three* sea* light on / \ / the cause ef this error. Guyot reached the State Line from the forth x Carolina side, through the valley of the luekassges by way of laven end Straight Forks. He notes the elfceation of the house of his guide through the Smokies, Mobert Collies, who lived in the highest house. Pros the .function of Harm ©ad Straight Perk* {2,476 ft.)..Guyot climbed to ths crest of the Balsaa lidge. «$ae first peak, shies: he aotes, is "Luftee Sams,'.head of str*i£tt fork of Ocoaalnftee Hirer" (8,282 ft,), a name that has' survived, iileewheref Guyot refer*/to thi* peak as "The miar, head of Straight fork of ooemlnftee hlver*. Here the Sandea isap indicates the State Line as coding into the Balsam Ridge. Clearly Guyot was traveling north' oa Balsam*Bidge towards Smoky. He next lists the knobs, bearing the eharaotorleas aanos of meraoraetor (6,157 ft.) and haven (6,280 ft.), tshioh are clearly oa the Balaam Eidgr, between Luftee Knob and Guyot'** Trleoraer Knob, these no* nameless knob* can be located readily through the usually infallible test of a comparison of she Guyot and the Geological Survey elevation*. Hext la order on the list is Guyot*s frlcoraer Knob with an els-vat ios of 6,188 ft. Thi* knob Is the junction of Balsam hidgm **• Smoky, r'row Trleorser Knob Guyot undoubtedly proceeded to the then uaaamed St. Guyotl and beyond to Mt. Henry. ' Here he should have'"seen that the range, west from Big 25igeon Hirer, led an the aorta side of Big Creek iato Kt. Henry and act Into Tricoraer Khob, further- south. Guyot** error as to the location of Mt*. Guyot and Henry may be explained by a two fold supposition! that his observatioa from both . ists* Hoary and Guyot was so restricted sa not to reveal the true topography of the range and further that he understood that the Stat* f Lin* followed tho range oa the south wide of Big Creek, through Mt. Sterling 6. Possibly orlgiaally known as Balsam Ctijp. So* ■ «a*rle*m Journal of Art*' and Science, Vol. 24, 2nd Series, page 277. - 7 -
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