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  1. Range over 800 km/500 mi long extending from
  2. Pennsylvania to Virginia, USA, rising to more
  3. than 1,500 m/4,900 ft and averaging
  4. 750 m/2,500 ft. The mountains are a major
  5. source of timber, coal, iron, and limestone.
  6. They initially hindered western migration,
  7. the first settlement to the W being Marietta
  8. 1788.
  9.