. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . Le Conte, 6,612 ; MountCurtis, 6,568; Mount Safford, 6,535; CrossKnobj 5,931; Master Knob, feet. All theseelevations form a part of the great Smok-y orUnaka Mountains, the principal range of theAppalachian chain. They all, with few ex-ceptions, are on or near the line that separatesTennessee from North Carolina. There are afew points on the eastern border of the Cumber-land Range which rise above 3,000 feet, butthe western border aver
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . Le Conte, 6,612 ; MountCurtis, 6,568; Mount Safford, 6,535; CrossKnobj 5,931; Master Knob, feet. All theseelevations form a part of the great Smok-y orUnaka Mountains, the principal range of theAppalachian chain. They all, with few ex-ceptions, are on or near the line that separatesTennessee from North Carolina. There are afew points on the eastern border of the Cumber-land Range which rise above 3,000 feet, butthe western border averages a greater height thanthe eastern, as the strata dip northeasterly, andthe coal seams that outcrop on the westernslope, 1,600 to 1,800 feet above the sea, oftendisappear on the eastern slope beneath thegenera! surface. The Alleghany range of Penn-sylvania and Virginia becomes the CumberlandTable-land in Tennessee and the Sand Moun-tain in Alabama. The Blue Ridge of Pennsyl-vania, Virginia, and North Carolina takes thename of Unaka or Smoky Mountains in Ten-nessee. The Holston and the Clinch, the Cliil-howee, and Lookout are a few among manv de-. D C TENNESSEE jached mountains in Tennessee. The long,itraight valleys lying between the many parallelridges and overlooked by them, but open to thenortheast and southwest, are often rich, popu-lous, and beautiful — centres of industry, intelli-gence, and a diversified system of the State altogether it will be seen thatthe topography is greatly diversified by moun-tains and valleys, hills and dales, rocky heightsand broad plateaus. The great elevations onthe east are offset by the low valley of the Mis-sissippi River on the west. Betw-een these arethree great plateaus and two marvelously fruit-ful valleys all differing in height, area, soils,climate, and productions. It is indeed a State ofalmost infinite variety in its natural features,resembling tlie characteristic features of the eightState* that border it, a
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