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MarTerRIALS For Grass MAKING. 
The white, arenaceous quartz, found associated with the talcose slates, will serve for this purpose; 
but the auriferous decomposed hornstone of Brewer’s mine, presents the most convenient material, 
as it is already pulverized. 'There are also very pure sands in the Tertiary beds, near Aiken, that 
would answer well. 
Marertats FoR WHETSTONES AND GRINDSTONES. 
In the clay slates there are many localities, in Edgefield, where good whetstones are found. 
Among the talco-micaceous slates coarser stones occur, approaching scythe-stones. The fine grits 
of the New Red sandstone, of Chesterfield, are sometimes used for grindstones; and there are beds 
of fine grit, in’ the Fork of Saluda, that would answer the same purpose. The South is every 
where supplied with all these things from the North. 
As a general rule, it is better for the industrial pursuits of a people to be confined to the produc- 
tion of those things that are best suited to their soil, climate or circumstances; but there are some 
things that can be as well produced in one place as another, and I Racine that there are hun- 
dreds of persons in the State, whose industry would be quite as productive, if engaged in lime bun- 
ing, in the preparation of porcelain clay, or the manufacture of fire-brick, as it is in planting. 
Minera SPRINGS. 
The geological character of the State is unfavorable to the existence of springs of very prominent 
mineral properties ; nevertheless there are some that have acquired considerable notoriety for medi- 
cinal virtues: among these the most noted are Glenn’s Springs, in Spartanburg District. The 
water of these springs is strongly charged with salts of lime. Their location is a pleasant and 
salubrious one, and the springs are much resorted to by visitors from the lower parts of the State. 
Not far from this there is a chalybeate spring, known as West’s Springs. 
Chick’s Springs, a few miles above the village of Greenville, are pleasantly situated, in sight of 
the mountains, and within a pleasant ride of the village. The water resembles that at Glenn’s 
Springs, but is not so strongly impregnated. 
There are, in Abbeville District, in the Flat-woods, and near Parson’s Mountain, saline and cha- 
lybeate springs, but they are not places of resort. ‘There is another spring in the eastern side of the 
District, at Pinson’s Ford, near Dr. Jones’s, which is also chalybeate and saline, and deserves a trial. 
In Laurens there are three or four highly chalybeate and sulphureous springs. They occur in 
the hornblende slates that extend from the Saluda to the Enoree, north of the village, and are wor- 
thy of notice. 
A few miles above the village of Spartanburg a spring occurs that has some reputation, and is a 
place of some resort. 
Another spring of similar character, is found at the foot of the Estatoe mountains, in the upper 
part of Greenville, at Mr. Barton’s. This is a pleasant spot for the ramblers among the mountains 
to rest, as it is an easy ride to Table-rock. 
There are few places where persons in search of health or pleasure could spend a month or two 
more pleasantly than among the mountains of the State. They commit a great mistake who ima- 
gine that, by skipping to the top of Table-rock, with the aid of Mr. Sunderland’s steps, and from 
thence run across to Ceesar’s Head, they have exhausted the beauties of this region. 
