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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PA^RT I. 



CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Location. Area : Maps. General Feati 

 Rivers. Regions. Agriculture : Small Grain, Rice, Indigo, Indian Corn, Cot 

 Sea Island Cotton, Remarks. Diagram op Crops, 1(j70 to 1880 pp. 1 



CHAPTER II. COAST REGION. Location ; Area, CharacterLsties. Geolo 

 Subsidence, Erosion, Sedimentation, Formation of Islands, Topography. Physi 

 Features, Tides. Soils : Uplands. Bays, Salt-^NIarshes. Analyses : terror, Occurr- 

 of Marls, &c. Climate : Health. Statistics. Productions. Cotton : Three Kind 

 Seeds, Hyl^rids, Origin, Improvement, and Characteristics of Sea Isiand. Far: 

 Number, Value of Land. Labor : Tenures, Credits, Diagram, Enclosur«,>s, Draina' 

 Plows, Hoes, Fallows. Culture: Of Sea Island Cotton. Enemies: Of\ the Pla 

 Handling. Seed: Santees and ]Mains. Limits: Of Culture. Cosr' of Prodnctii 

 Yield, Itemized Statement of Expenditures pp. 14- 



CHAPTER III. LOWER PINE BELT, OR SAVANNA REGION. Locatk 

 Physical— Features, Rivers, Lakelets, Elevation, Drainage, Irrigration, Freshet,. 

 Geology: Cretaceous, Buhrstone, Santee Marls, Ashley and Cooper Marls. Phos- 

 phates : Occurrence, Characters, Fossils, Changes, Origin, Extent. Mining. Soils : 

 Ui)lands, Analyses, Swamps. Growth. Climate : Health. Statistics. Productions : 

 Rice Culture, Oats, Grasses. Area: In Cotton. Farms: Labor, Wages, Rents. Value 

 of Land, Credits. Tillage: Fallowing, Rotation of Crops, ^Manures. C'otton : Culture, 

 Hai-^'5ng. Cost : Of Production. Disasters to the Plant. Abstract of Township Cor- 

 v -me pp. 4-I-7(>. 



^TP:R IV. T'PPER PINE BELT. Location. Elevation: Water Courses- 

 r : Cretaceous, Miocene, and Eocene Marls, Buhrstone. Soils : Analyses. Pee 

 jc Lands, River Lands, Swamp Lands. Climate: Frost Diagram. Growth: Indian 

 Fires, Productions Statistics. Advances: To Farmers. Size of Farms. Laijor: 

 Wages, Rent, Value of Land. Table : Exhibiting Production in Relation to Credits, 

 Size of Farms, those Rented and those Worked by Owners. Enclosures: Drainage, 

 Fallows, Rotation, Tillage, Growth on Lands Lying Out, Manures. C'otton : Culture, 

 Handling. Ratio : Of Lint to Seed Cotton. Shipping. Grass, Lice, Rust. Cost : Of 

 Production. Ditto in 1848. Ab.stract ; Of Township Correspondence pp. 71-io;». 



CHAPTER V. RED HILL REGION. Location. Geology: Sienna Colored 

 Clay, Gravel Bed, Buhrstone, Siliceous Rock. Soils: Analyses. Climate. Growth. 

 Statistics PP. llO-lKi. 



\ CHAPTER VI. SAND HILL REGION. Position and Area: Elevation, Contour, 

 Diagram, Streams, Lakelets, Blowing Wells. Geology : Granite, Sandstone, Loose 

 Sand, Kaolin Clay. Soils : Analyses. Growth and Productions. Clbmate. Sta- 



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