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Nomenclature notes: Great Smoky Mountains: Origin of the name

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  • -4- himself, just as they did names In general, and common words as well. It is derived from Apalachee, tho name of a tribe that De Soto found in northern Florida, and, as the Spaniards considered that their new-found land of Florida extended indefinitely -;«gggj^ardf the term covered a lot of territory. ■ In the Cjod^nigal lie cords of_ Iforth Carolina are several references to the "Cherokee Mountains," which are therein declared "impassable." By this name was meant what we now call the Blue Ridgo. In. 1885, Henry Woodward" obtained from the Lords Proprietors a commission for inland exploration in which are recited the benefits to be expected from having "the Inlands of our Province of--Carolina well . covered and what they doe contain© and also a j | over the Apalat ountalnes found out." In 1690, a noted adventurer, 3 Moore, secretary of the colony of South Carolina, succeeded in Baking a journey, as he >j "over the Apalathean Mountains . . i an well out of curiosity to see what sort of Country we mighthave in Land as to find out and make new and further 3 aery of Indian ... .8 He got far enough up into the mountains to be within twenty miles of whore Spaniards sere engaged in mining and smelting with bellows I Wxrnaces, or so his Indian, guides informed him. He found i .ihens of ores that he sent to- land for assay; but, owing to difficult leu ?<ith the Cherokees, he says he was not able to proceed "to the place which 1 had « My gon to see." . Sometime within the next six years the Smokies probably wear* reached, from the opposite direction, by i c_ou.reur de bois, one Jean Couture. He bad deserted from lew
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