Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of North Carolina: Including the First Annual Report of the Inspector of Mines, for the Year 1897 This State may be described as a slope, whose western bound ary, the great Smoky Mountain Range, has an average elevation Of feet, and by an easy incline reaches a dead level near the coast. 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.