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Nomenclature notes: Great Smoky Mountains: Origin of the name

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  • in going, from Virginia aa far as the Big Pigeon River, or a bit ether, and then found itself in such rough country that it quit and went ■.■■- *• .Arthur, in hie "Western Horth Carolina^! gives an amusing account of th® vicissitudes suffered hy the surveyors, what with laurel thieW-w--, cliffs, rainstorms, N thunder and lightning, poor food, "rattlebuga,■ and mountain dew. not long It . . ■ -tune, »M#a»* »mmmlm ago, to find in the archives of tha Horth Carolina Historical Commission, -at Raleigh, time-stained copy of th© original imp made by this survey in 1700. It is an enormous , drawn on a la ,oale. The line, where -they, left it, ends, on the westward, at a point arked ."high pinacle of the' Smokey mn.,H four miles west of the Pigeon River. This* is easily identl &*' Sharp Top, a conspiou- j ous landmark on the Bain divide northeast; '.aunt Guyot. ' Early'In the nineteenth eontury tha name Great Smoky began, by common consent, to dl- :. of Groat !'; "oimtain, although the latter continue;- to be mentioned as an alternative, or older name. In the summer of .1821- tho State of Korth Carolina elated William. Davenport to mm the lino -from where the McDowell commission had aoned their effort and go on through, to the Georgia'line. This he did. For a Ion i field-book in which'he kept hla records was lost; but in November, 1910, it 'was, found in a secret drawer of an old sideboard that formerly belonged to ths surveyor, at his home in Caldwell County. I have an exact transeript of that field-book*
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