![]() ![]() One or two mines of lead have been worked and iron ore is no where mere abundant. Beautiful specimens of rock chrystals are sometimes discovered. Burr millstones are quarried from some of the Cumberland mountains. Inexhaustible quarries of gypsum, of the finest quality, abound in East Tennessee in positions favorable to be transported by the boatable Beautiful white, grey and red marbles are found in this state. They are found on high table grounds, far from the Mississippi, or any water course, and at a still greater distance from the gulf of Mexico.Įarths, Fossils and Salts. In the southern parts of the state are immense banks of oyster shells, of a size, that in some instances, the half weighed two pounds. The descending strata in West Tennessee appear to be arranged in the following order: first, loamy soil, or mixtures of clay and sand next, yellow clay thirdly, a mixture of red sand and red clay and lastly, a sand, as white, as is seen on the shores of the Atlantic. The soil in East Tennessee has uncommon proportions of dissolved lime, and nitrate of lime mixed with it, which gives it an uncommon share of fertility. ![]() As great a proportion of the cultivable land in Tennessee is first rate, as in any other of the western states. The alluvions of the great streams of Tennessee and Cumberland differ little from those of the other great streams of the West. ![]() These valleys are rich, beyond any of the same description elsewhere in the western country. On the valleys of the small creeks and streams are many pleasant plantations, in situations beautiful, and yet so lonely, that they seem lost among the mountains. The mountains and hills subside, as they approach the Ohio and Mississippi. Even the summits of some of the mountains exhibit plateaus of considerable extent, which admit of good roads, and are cultivated and inhabited. Of grand and imposing in scenery, nothing striking and picturesque in cascades and precipitous sides of mountains, covered with wood nothing romantic and delightful in deep and sheltered valleys, through which wind still and clear streams, which is not found in this state. Mountains and hills occupy a very great proportion of the state. It is singular that all these mountains have a dip towards the west, apparently surpassing that of their eastern declivity. Welling's and Copper ridge, and Clinch, Powell's and Bay's mountains are at the northeast of the state. Stone, Yellow, Iron, Bald and Unaka are different peaks of a continued chain. Among these the most lofty are Cumberland and Laurel ridge. In East Tennessee, the Alleghanies branch out into a great many ridges. The Cumberland mountains range through it in an oblique direction, dividing it into two distinct sections, called East and West Tennessee. In this respect this state is, probably, more diversified than any other in the western country. It was originally included in the state of North Carolina, from which it was separated, and admitted into the Union, as an independent state, in 1796.įace of the country. South by Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi West by the river Mississippi. MEDIAL length, 400 miles medial breadth, 120. ![]()
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