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Unaka and the Pisgah

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  • U1AEA All- PI8&AB !• fey Myron H, Avftry "land of 'the whit© aounfta. las*- is a corruption of the ah©r©k©a .Indian ft*** for a section of th© Southern AppalAohlaas. It is descriptive of me ft|»* g*** has*, which so fr®qu*nftly mmbmm over it© pftskft. If, fey clpac© .the Iroquois had been less successful ia their southern. raids, to*** restricted the range of th© Cherokee* to th® Southern Appalachian*, a well-known range ia Sft* JtBgafttl might well .have "paea^thi* designation instead of Its prosaic English translation, foday Bnaka and Hsgah ar® th* ***** of larg© units ia th© national Porast system,' Sft the outdoor «nfthnsiasft the words have still another slgalficanftSf they are contiguous sections of th® Appalachian frail through south*»*t«s» Virginia, Tennessee soft along th© fennessoe-lorth Carolina Ua** their southern feouadsry is «t to* Big Pigeon.Biv*r, the ******* feftuadary of ft** Qre«t S«oky Jtooateia* Hatlo&al Park, the feest-knowa -sad most frefaeated region la th® Southera Appalachians, % th© north it adjoins, sft low Biver, th* Sft allft *afaft**» Virginia Appalachian frail section ' ©f th© ft****** trail. In th© mmtm s*t the Plsgah sections th® ©xtreaely complex gftograpBlft^l structure of the Southern Appalachians is faHy dftvftloped, fhe Southern Appalachians ft** eomonly thoaght ftf as composed of the Blue Eldge with . 1, fh® assistance of Paul S, fink sad Soorg© If*** in th® preparation of geographical and .historical Material for these notes, is gratefully aelmowledged, B, for an account of this region see APPALaCIlAfi" 15U.I1 SOOTHEHK VEHOBTUi fSftJg OP tStPJI fO ffi-'I PIPERS &;_ JPa®, 1932, pp. sad $****** Appalachian frsslT'CHS* Bullet la, July, ISSgf for the liters tar* ©f th® Great Smokies, .see A BiBUOGRAan' m M SSSAf ShOKISS, Ap elacala. Vol, IS, iO. 8, pp. E71-7.
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