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...purchase. Last week Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee and Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina, journeyed to Washington, jointly presented Secretary of the Interior Wilbur with the beginnings of their park-deeds for 158,799 Great Smoky acres. Governor Gardner said the mountain forests in the park area were full grown when Columbus discovered America. Governor Horton described the race for land between the two states. Secretary Wilbur thanked North Carolina, Tennessee, the Rockefellers, marveled at "the largest real estate operation with which I have ever been associated...
...Great Smoky National Park, the only one like it east of Yellowstone, will be approached from Knoxville or Asheville. It will be about 50 by 25 miles in area. Without spoiling the landscape, the U. S. will build trunk roads and trails, camp shelters, telephone lines. Hunting will be prohibited, but 400 miles of trout-filled streams will be open to visiting fishermen...
Despite the strenuous seekings of all these men, despite all the peerings of two centuries of exploring, Antarctica remains almost totally unknown. It has an area half as great again as that of the U. S. Ages ago it had a mild climate, indicated by fossilized marine and land life. Apparently never connected with the other continents, it was never inhabited by humans. Its chief denizens nowadays are whales, seals, penguins, petrels. There are no south polar bears...
...damp air, peering into obscurity ahead, went Leo McGavic and Cecil Cutliff, guides, inching their way through the nether tortuosities of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. About a mile and a half from where Floyd Collins died (TIME, June 27. 1927), the two guides found a crystal "garden" with an area of 500 square feet, sparkling beneath their flashlights. The crystalline formation is low and level, apparently not formed by mineral-bearing water dripping from above, as is usually the case in limestone caves. It seems an underground erosion phenomenon. The "flowers" roughly resemble cabbages...
...Canada's area is 3,684,723 sq. mi.; the U. S. including Alaska is 3,564,658 sq. mi. Europe covers...