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for The State Vol. 23 Issue 10, Oct 1955
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Abstract:
Although the crabbing industry in North Carolina is one of the youngest of the State's four major commercial fishing industries, it has shown the most progress in the past 20 years. Three-fourths of the annual catch comes from Pamlico Sound and its major tributaries. There are three principal methods of crabbing in North Carolina: crab pots, trawling nets, and \"trot lines.\"
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This section of the map displays big towns of the day, including Salem, Salisbury, and Hillsborough, as well as the Trading Path, Indian villages, and the most prominent peak of Mount Arrarat.
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A 105-foot cypress tree, which had grown in Wells Swamp in Pitt County for over 1,500 years, was cut down recently by an Enfield lumber company. The tree measured seventeen feet in circumference and was perhaps one of the oldest cypress trees in the state.
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deLue, the travel editor of the Boston Globe, continues his trip through eastern North Carolina, this time stopping in the historic city of New Bern. Here he discovered that New Bern's well-known William Gaston was of the same family branch of the Boston, Massachusetts Gastons. He also described for his readers some of the city's sights and history.