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Guyot's geographic notes on the southern Appalachians

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  • FOOTNOTES 6. The plan was not realised! the NOTES ON THE OKOORARBY. OF THE MOUNTAIN V.ffiTRICT OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA constitute Guyot*s final work on the Southern Appalachians. The eastern half of the map waa, however, revised in 1863. 7. frte Blue Ridge is much depressed where the Roanoke River outs across it. It rises again, south, as an increasingly broad plateau. The prominent eastern rim is known as the Blue Ridge. The western rim, beyond Poor and Pilot Mountains, loses elevationj it becomes prominent again vest of Hew River, as tho Iron Mountains. dinger Mountain (3,820 ft.) in northern Georgia, is the very pronounced southern Junction of the eastern and western chains. The northern junction cannot, however, be so exactly located. 8. Mt. Oglethorpe (3,290 ft.) at the end of the Aiaioalola Range, the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, is the southern end of the mountain system in Georgia % the "swell" extends southwest into Alabama and dies out near Birmingham. 9. Obviously an error for western* see next paragraph. 10. This river Is the "Oooee" in Tennessee and the "Toaooa" in Georgia (Fifth Report of the b. s. Geographic Board, pp. 240 and 328}. The Geological Survey asps follow the decisions of the Geographic Board as to the different names for the same river in the two states. 11. Now Amioalola (Fifth Report of the U. S. Geographic Board, p. 38). 12. Now Etowah (Fifth Report of the U. S, Geographic Board, p. 123). 13. Now Nentahala (Fifth Report of the U. S. GeographiO Board, p. 228) { a Cherokee word, signifying "Land of ths Noon- Day Sun". 14. See manuscript iiRNOED GOT0T AND THE GHEaT SH3KXB9 by Paul M, Fink and M. H. Avery, deposited in the Library of the Appalachian Koun ain Club, for a detailed review of Guyot's exploration in the Great Smokies end the resulting nomenclature. See also Decisions U. S. Osographlc Board, January 15, 1932*and corrections in Decisions of LTarch 2,-and April 6, 1932. The present day names of the segments of the westsrn range oorapsre with the Guyot names as follows? -V
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