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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in relation to the forests, rivers, and mountains of the southern Appalachian region

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  • DESCRIPTION OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN FORESTS BY RIVER BASINS. By H. B. Ayres and W. W. Ashe. In order to present in more convenient form detailed information about the forest conditions in the Southern Appalachians, the following descriptions have been arranged by drainage basins, beginning at the northeast and moving around the mountains to the place of beginning, in the order given below. This arrangement will serve an important purpose in the consideration of water flow and also the question of transportation. The region has for this purpose been divided into the following fourteen drainage areas: New River, South Fork of Holston River, Watauga River, Nolichucky River, French Broad River, Big Pigeon River, Northwestern Slope of Smoky Mountains, Little Tennessee River, Hiwassee River, Tallulah and Chattooga rivers, Toxaway River, Saluda River and First and Second Broad rivers, Catawba River, Yadkin River. NEW RIVER BASIN. [712,000 acres; so per cent wooded.] New River, a feeder of the Ohio through the Kanawha, Topography, drains the eastern portion of the Appalachian Plateau lying between the Blue Ridge on the southeast and Iron Mountain on the northwest. The sources of the tributaries are high, from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, but the river valley below the junction of" the North and South forks has been eroded down to an altitude of '2,500 to '2,000 feet. The resulting topography is a system of deep, narrow valleys and ravines, among which area few isolated peaks (having an altitude of 5,000 feet and upward) and occasional flats, which are of two classes—(1) in high altitudes remnants of the old plateau, and (2) along the larger streams, narrow, sedimentary Huts. 69
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