Excerpt from Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Vol. 10: Part First, January-June, 1893 These differences in topography and elevation, with accompanying differences in soil, corresponding in a general way to geological formations, have given this State a wonderful variety of woods, and have placed in juxtaposi tion trees normally separated by many degrees of latitude. Thus are found in North Carolina eight species of pines out of the thirteen given in the Tenth United States Census Report as occuring in the United States east of the Missis sippi River; twenty oaks out of twenty-three; all of the six maples; three elms out of four; all seven magnolias. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.