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  • ,v*> R. Mf OR APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN KOKEHCLATURE to Tho North Carolina Park Commission by Horace Kephart January 38, 1931, Jfip* Verno Rhoades, Executive Secretary North Carolina Park Commission, Ashevillo, II. C. Dear Mr. Rhoades* 1 am returning herewith the correspondence with Mr* John J. Cameron, Secretary of the U* S. Geographic Board which you recently gave me for study with reference to the name Great Smoky Mountains and its proper applicatioa. Within the past few years I have given oonsiderahle study to the origin of place namee in the Southern Appalachian region. It is a rather confusing subject , and yet one that may he clarified, I think, hy research in contemporary documents and old maps, in proper sequence* First, the name Appalachian, under various spellings, as applied to the wild and mountainous interior that s^ill hears it, sees hack at least as far as 1597, at which date it appears on the map entitled "Florida et Apalohe" hy Comely Wytf liet, puhlished in Louvain. Sir William Talbot, in 1672, speaking of John Ledorer's travels (1670) in Virginia and Carolina, eays in his translations "It is clear that the long looked- for discovery of the Indian Sea does nearly approach? and Carolina * . . presumes that the accomplishment of this glorious Designs is reserved for her. In order to which, the Apalataean Mountains (though like the prodigious Wall that divides China from Tartary, they deny Virginia passage into the West Continent) stoop to your lordships Dominions, and lay open a Prospect into unlimited Empires." In 1685 Henry Woodward wrote of the benefits to be expected from hav ing tho Inlands of our Province of Carolina well, discovered and also a passage over ' the Apalateans Hountaines found out." In 1690 James Moore, secretary of the colony of South Carolina, reported that he had succeeded in making a journey "over the Apalathean Mountaines," though it is quite unlikely that he crossed more than the Blue Ridge. la early colonial records of North Carolina are several references to the "Cherokee Mountains • • • impassable,n by which was meant the Blue Ridge. This designation was also used, as late as 1776, by the botanist William Bertram, who called the Uantahala range the "Jore Itountains,'* but seems to have known no name for the northwesterly escarpment overlooking the present Tennessee, of which he had only hearsay, James Adair, a noted Indian trader and-writer, who lived at one time among %he Cherokees, refers in his History of the American Indians (London, 1775) to"the Allegeny, or 'great blue ridge', commonly called the Apaiahche mountains ... above a hundred miles broad."
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