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Excerpt from Resources of the North Cumberland Valley, Vol. 6: Comprising Parts of Whitley, Knox, Bell, Harlan, and Letcher Counties; Part IV The above attests the fertility of the soil on the uplands. Dr. Robert Peter, Chemist of the Geological Survey, and Widely known for his great abilities as an agricultural chemist, after an examination of these soils, says;* The soil from the plateau and summit is much richer than might have been expected. Its large proportion of organic and volatile mat ters, as well as alkalies in the insoluble silicates, indicate the influence of the primeval forest growth, with which it is cov ered, in retaining the elements of fertility on the surface. The unusually large proportion of silicates, rich in alkalies, in the rock material from which the soil was derived, ' may have been another cause. 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.

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