THE LOWER PINE BELT, OR SAVANNA REGION. 67 



utilized for building material ; water, near the river, limestone ; inland, 

 free stone. Price of land, $1 to $5 an acre. One place sold for $8. Very 

 little field work by whites ; negroes hire at from twenty cents to forty 

 cents per day, or $50 to $75 by 'the year, or work two days in the week 

 for a house and as much land as they can cultivate, or on shares, the land- 

 owner furnishing all except manures, and taking half Timber abundant 

 for lumber, staves, shingles, hoops, &c. 



St. Stephen's : Lands along the river rolling, for • the rest level and 

 swampy ; soil, a sandy loam, resting, at depth of six inches to twenty 

 inches, on subsoil of stiff red clay. Much unreclaimed swamp, composed of 

 alluvial deposits and rich vegetable mould. Some marl stone found on the 

 river, with some green sand. Price of land, $1 to $5; per diem wages, 

 average forty cents ; the long staple cotton, known as Santees, formerly 

 grown here, neglected now; woods grass, swamp cane and marsh 

 furnish a good range for stock, to which little attention is paid. 



St. Andrew's : Fine, dark, gray, sandy loam, resting, at six to ten inches 

 depth, on blue clay, underlaid by phosphate rock and marl. No land for 

 sale ; rents at from $1 to $3 per acre ; eighty per cent, not under cultiva- 

 tion ; cane, woods grass, and swamp marsh furnish a good range for stock. 



CLARENDON COUNTY. 



Mott's Township : Three-fourths level, fine, gray, sand}'' loam, six inches 

 to twelve inches to yellow sand (sometimes clay) subsoil, clay found one 

 to two feet beneath surface ; one-fourth white, sandy soil, and stiff clay 

 land, or black flat land. Yields 700 pounds of seed cotton, five to twenty- 

 five bushels of corn, ten to twenty-five bushels of rice. Land sells from 

 $2 to $10 an acre, and rents for from $1 to $5 ; unimproved water-powers 

 on Lynch's river and Douglass swamp. Two-thirds of field work done 

 by whites ; wages average sixty-two and a half cents by the day. 



^S*^. PauVs : 1st. Light sandy soil ; near the river swamp, not subject to 

 overflow ; contains lime, and is very productive. 2d. Inland from last, a 

 belt of stiff clay land, called " bay land," produces a bale of cotton to the 

 acre, without manure. 3d. The highlands, comprising the body of 

 the township, known under the name of " clay lands," low and somewhat 

 rolling, a sandy loam with small gravel in it, subsoil, yellow clay. Marl 

 is found four to eight feet below low water mark ; yields 700 pounds of 

 seed cotton, ten to twenty bushels corn, and the same of rice. Sugar-cane 

 two to three hundred gallons of syrup per acre ; potatoes two to four hun- 

 dred bushels. Half the landholders reside outside the township ; land 

 mostly rented to negro farmers for four hundred pounds of lint for one 

 mule farm ; two hundred pounds for one ox farm. White farmers do their 



