340 On the Secondary and Tertiary Formations. 
the same recent shells, and water-cresses in greater abundance. 
But the water, I noticed, was lukewarm, and. one of the largest 
of the streams, after running only about fifty yards, see 
disappeared under the limestone, and. was no more seen... 
rock does not contain a great variety of fossil shells; the most 
abundant are some large Ostreze, of what species I edie not, the 
specimens being lost... On this account, too, I cannot speak so 
decidedly as I wished to have done of the quality of the lime- 
stone, which ought certainly to be of some practical importance, 
being on.a river navigable by steamboats, and in a region where 
lime bears a high price and wood is very cheap. A little enter 
prise and skill only.are requisite to create an extensive business 
here. in the manufacture of lime. But though its good effects.as 
a manute force itself upon the notice of those who use the adja 
cent fields, still no attempts have been made to extend. its use 
farther than nature has seen. alenerccinen rock, an the ealea: 
reous deposits formed from it. . a 
So on. the. Edisto, in. Colleton. pre ves seal is ‘equally 
available, and equally neglected ; and though lime enough might 
be made on these two streams to supply the whole of the eastern 
parts of South Carolina and Georgia, at an expense not exceeding 
fifteen cents a bushel, yet the inhabitants prefer to import theit 
lime from Thomaston, Maine, and pay at Charleston $2,00 pet 
cask, or when brought up to the neighborhood of these vast quar 
ries it sells for $3,00 per cask! . In Chester county, Penny while 
on. the geological. survey of that state, 1 have seen lime made 
and sold for ten cents a- bushel, where: the. natural: - facilities are 
no greater than here. And when on th ss in Maines 
and employed at. Thomaston. in obtaining: the statistics of the 
pocorn cameto the conclusion that the southern states 
wide: Rl y deficient, ee limestone ; that notwi ee 
