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Title: North Carolina and its resources
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Stewart, M. I. (Moses I.) prt Stewart, J. C. (John C.) prt North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
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Publisher: Winston : M.I. & J.C. Stewart, public printers and binders
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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wards the east, ultimately pass out of the State in themiddle portion of the Piedmont Plateau, and find their way to theAtlantic ocean through the State of South Carolina; while thosehaving their sources in the belt on the eastern extension of the sameregion find an entrance into the tide-waters of the Coastal Plainregion of this State. The general river system is naturally divided into three su.jordi-nate ones entirely distinct from each other. The most characteristicof these is that originating on the Blue Ridge, or on its westernslope, the superior elevation of the high culminating masses of thegreat Appalachian chain throwing off the rivers to all the points ofthe compass. From this culminating height the Tennessee river,with its length of twelve hundred miles, draws its chief supply; andthe Ohio, with equal length, from the same source draws one of itschief upper tributaries. The volume of water poured out from thismountain reservoir is very great. Thus, the most western of them.
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ON FRENCH BROAD RIVER — SOUTHERN RAILWAY. RiVBRS. 123 the Hiwassee, with its tributaries, the Valle)^ and Nottely rivers,draining two counties, Clay and Cherokee, an area of about sixhundred and fifty square miles, passes into southtastern Tennessee, apowerful stream with a breadth of one hundred yards, with a descent,from its sources to the State line, a distance of about seventy-fivemiles, of firom eight hundred to nine hundred feet, providing greatand continuous water-power. The Tennessee river, united with theCheoah, the Nantahala, the Ocono Luftee and the Tuckaseegee, alllarge streams with a width of from fifty to one hundred and fiftyyards, with united volume and resistless power, cuts its way throughthe Smoky mountains at the point of their greatest elevation, andconstitutes one of the principal branches of the greater Tennessee,which unites with the Ohio a short distance above the junction ofthat river with the Mississippi. The united drainage of the Tennesseein North Caroli

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