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fall to the third level, that carries the water through an- 

 other canal into a natural hollow, and back into the river 

 above the city. The work is done at the expense of the 

 city corporation, which will receive a revenue for water 

 rents. The navigation of the canal is made free, as by 

 that thousands of bales of cotton come to Augusta mar- 

 ket. There is now in operation one beautiful cotton fac- 

 tory of 9,000 spindles, and another of the same sized 

 building. There are two excellent merchant flouring mills 

 in operation, and a sawmill and some other works, and a 

 large machine shop nearly ready; and there is ample 

 room and water for a hundred or two more. Good mate- 

 rials for brick abound upon the spot, and coal, iron, lime, 

 and granite up the railroad; and then the location being 

 healthy, why should it not become a great manufacturing 

 town? There is also a railroad 136 miles, to Charleston, 

 which makes Augusta within five days of New York. 



But the best of all, is the fact that the town has a 

 population equal in point of character to any other, north 

 or south; and is surrounded with some of the best and 

 most enterprising farmers in Georgia. Among others, 

 I may be permitted to mention Messrs. Eve,^ Delaigle,* 

 Coleman,^ Miller,* and Moore.'' The first is one of the 



' William J. Eve, Richmond County, Georgia, was an exhibitor at 

 the Stone Mountain Cattle Show, 1848. Southern Cultivator, 6:145 

 (October, 1848). 



' Mr. Delaigle, Augusta, Georgia, had a celebrated Cherokee Rose 

 hedge. Ibid., 6:46, 101 (March, July, 1848); 9:74 (May, 1851). 



'James L. Coleman, Augusta, Georgia. Planter. Interested in 

 wheat culture in the South. With John Cunningham, established a 

 mill on the Augusta Canal and offered prizes for the best wheat 

 grown in that vicinity. Maintained a fine orchard of over one hun- 

 dred acres of choice trees. Ibid., 6:169 (November, 1848); 9:192 

 (December, 1851); A7nerican Farmer, 4th series, 4:412 (June, 

 1849). 



* Probably Andrew J. Miller (1806-1856), lawyer, state repre- 

 sentative, and state senator. Born in Camden County, Georgia. 

 Aided greatly in securing the construction of the Western and 

 Atlantic Railroad. Memorial History of Augusta, Georgia, 240-41 

 (D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N.Y., 1890). 



* The wheat culture of M. B. Moore of Augusta, Georgia, is men- 

 tioned in the Report of the Commissioner of Patents, 1849, pt. 2:209. 



