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 the village of Peachtree; thence northerly with public road lead- ing up Slow Creek approximately %mile crossing railroad and Slow Creek to the second road fork beyond the creek; thence westerly and southwesterly with a public road, crossing Zimmer- man Creek, to U. S. Highway No. 64; thence northwesterly with U. S. Highway No. 64 to Fall Branch; thence southerly with the meanders of Fall Branch to its junction with the Hiwassee River; thence southeasterly with the meanders of the Hiwassee River to the mouth of Brasstown Creek; thence southeasterly with the meanders of Brasstown Creek to the North Carolina- Georgia State Line; thence westerly with the state line to inter- section with public road just south of Cobb, N. C.; thence north- erly with said road passing through Cobb approximately 1 mile to a creek flowing west into Nottely River; thence westerly with the meanders of said creek to its junction with Nottely River; thence westerly and northerly with the meanders of the Nottely River to U. S. Highway No. 64 near Ranger, N. C .; thence westerly with U. S. Highway No. 64 to the North Carolina- Tennessee State Line; thence in a general northeasterly direction with the North Carolina-Tennessee State Line to where it crosses the Little Tennessee River; thence easterly up and with the mean- ders of the left bank of the Little Tennessee River to the mouth of the Tuckasegee River; thence easterly with the meanders of the left bank of Tuckasegee River to a point opposite the end of a long ridge approximately Y mile north of Wilmot; thence north- easterly crossing river and running with said ridge to the top of Little Bald; thence easterly with the meanders of the top of the mountain forming the divide between Soco Creek and Tuckasegee River to the top of Waterrock Knob, on the Jackson-Haywood County Line; thence southeasterly with the Jackson-Haywood County Line to Tennessee Bald, a common corner to the counties of Jackson, Haywood and Transylvania; thence southerly with the Jackson-Transylvania County Line on Tennessee ridge to its junctions with the Blue Ridge; thence southeasterly with the meanders of the top of the Blue Ridge leaving the county line, to Highway No. 283 in Estatoe Gap; thence southerly with Highway No. 283 to the North Carolina-South Carolina State Line; thence southwesterly with the state line to the place of beginning. Excluding from the above-described land all land within the cor- porate limits of the towns of Bryson City, Franklin, Dillsboro, Sylva, Murphy, Andrews, Marble, Robbinsville and Highlands.

The boundaries of the Nantahala National Forest are graphically shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this 9t day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President:

CORDELL HULL

Secretary of State.