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iher North, in New York, for example. While there are hundreds of fatal cases of sunstroke every summer in New York and other Northern cities, the disease is almost unknown in North Carolina. And last winter was one of unusual severity in the northern and western States, the thermometer several times dropping to 30° and 35°, and even 40° below zero in Iowa, Michigan and New York; but here 10° above zero was reached but once, and then but for a single night.
Healthfulness. Malarial diseases are of frequent occurrence in summer in the champaign country of the east and a hundred miles inland, especially along the river courses ; not of a malignant type, however. But the middle and mountain sections are remarkably salubrious, with the exception of a few restricted localities on sluggish streams, just as in Iowa and on the upper Missouri. By reference to the sanitary department of the Census Keport of 1870, it will be seen that one of the two or three most healthy localities in the United States is found in the western part of North Carolina, just east of the Blue Ridge. And indeed it would be difficult to find a more pleasant or salubrious climate in the world than the whole mountain region of N. C.
FORESTS.
, It will be seen from the United States Census table for 1870, that of its 50,000 square miles of territory, 40,000 square miles are still covered with forests. The range and variety of prevalent and characteristic species of growth being of course proportioned to those of the climate and soil, are very great. There are in fact three well marked and broadly distinguished forest regions, corresponding to and dependent upon the three geographical subdivisions, eastern, middle and western. And while the first section is characterized by a growth common in its prominent features to that in the Gulf States, as the long leaf pine, cypress, &c., the western or mountain section contains many species fa-