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first quality, except for fruit. Apples are abundant. Mr. 

 Peters is experimenting, which will be the best grass to 

 cultivate, as that is only lacking to make it one of the 

 very best wool-growing regions. 



Stone Mountain is an object, which attracts the atten- 

 tion of all travellers, a few miles after leaving Atlanta, 

 on the road to Augusta. It is an immense mass of naked 

 granite, standing up out of the comparative level around, 

 like the great pyramids of Egypt. It is a land mark that 

 will endure forever. If it had been a lime rock, it would 

 have been more valuable to the agriculturist; for all the 

 lands along this road would be wonderfully benefitted by 

 an application of calcareous matter. In sight of this 

 great natural curiosity let the traveller rest. 



Solon Robinson. 



The Traveller. — No. 7. 



[New York American AgriculUirist, 10:308-9; Oct., 1851] 



[March 17?, 1851] 



We took our last siesta in the shade of Stone Moun- 

 tain. Let us awaken at the whistle of the locomotive, 

 which has penetrated even into the solitude of the recesses 

 of this granite wilderness. 



It is March 10th. The morning, cool and frosty in this 

 elevated part of Georgia — the evening delightful. Farm- 

 ers and gardeners are all busy plowing and planting corn 

 and vegetables, and preparing land for the great staple 

 crop of the south. It is a lovely country and salubrious 

 climate ; but the green pastures and sleek, beautiful occu- 

 pants of pastoral countries are not here. It is said, grass 

 and clover does not flourish in this climate. Has it been 

 tried upon deep-tilled, highly-manured land sufficiently to 

 prove it will not endure the heat of summer? Grass re- 

 quires deeper tillage to prepare the land than is usually 

 given in the south. It also requires to be moist and rich. 

 Some of the swamp lands possess both the latter requi- 

 sites, and might possess the other, if the owners would 



