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Unaka and the Pisgah

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  • the Pisgah Forest is particularly well done. A new map for the Unaka is in the course of preparation. The first recorded climbs of many of the peaks in Unaka and Pisgah are undoubtedly those made by Arnold Guyot, just prior to the Civil War. In the establishment of a system of the measurement of elevations by barometer and in the development of a systematic geographic outline of the mountain system of the eastern United States, Guyot spent some ten summers climbing the peaks of the Appalachian Chain. The summers of 1856, 1858, 1859 and 1860 were devoted to the southern Appalachians. Guyot’s written articles number four. The most detailed is his monograph3 , ON THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN SYSTEM, which summarizes his ten years’ work, outlines the geography of the range and lists in sequence the elevations of the several groups. Of far greater value is the unpublished manuscript, GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE MOUNTAIN REGION OF WESTERN NORHT CAROLINA, together with a manuscript contains chapters on the “Western Range”, “The Watauga Valley”, “Nolichucky Valley”, “French Broad Valley” and “The Big Pigeon Valley”. From the elevations on the Guyot manuscript map, redrawn in 1863, it appears that Guyot climbed and measured Whitetop (5,530 ft.), Roan (6,306 ft.), High Bluff (4,703 ft.), Walnut Mountain (4,336 ft.) and Max Patch (4,708 ft.). The elevation of bald Spot of the Guyot map (5,500 ft., the present day Big Bald) was computed by Guyot from observation made by Professor W. C. Kerr of Davidson College. ------------------------------------------------------------- 3. American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 31, 2nd, Series, 1861, pp. 158-197; see also references to Guyot in A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, Appalachia, June 1931, pp. 271-7. -4-
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