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Heart of the Alleghanies

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  • 4 ) and tall conical firs, delicately tapering spruces, interlocked their weeping branches, from shore to shore."' Enveloping the body in a sheet, they carried it up the mountain to the summit, whence, at the request of the family, it was conveyed to Asheville for burial. A year later it, was disinterred, re-carried, and amid a large concourse of people, deposited on the ver:/ pinnacle of tho Appalachians. '"here rests the S Christian hero's dust " Since his death, Professor Mitchell's claim to the credit, of hairing measured the peak which bear his name is admitted. Professor Mitchell measurement %- first 6,772. laa- _.„ 6,706. Professor Guyot 6,7)1. Professor Turner 6,71 1. Hon. T. L. ClinTraan 6,941. U.S.G.S. 1950 . ■—■— fa,684. MOUKTAIK SGM8SRY By henry E. Colton, WW?, Bowler's Pyramid 6345. Beer lit. 6216, Cat Tail Peak 6595. Black Brother 661?, Bair? Bear 6597. Balsam Cone boo 1.. Mitchell's High Peak .67 11. Halloack 6401. Gibbs 6586. jananoa Mt, Mitchell 6576. Potato Top 6389.
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