70 THE LOWER PINE BELT, OR SAVANNA REGION. 



swamp land of great fertility, but unimproved. Yield, three hundred 

 to fifteen hundred pounds seed cotton per acre, five to thirt}^ bushels corn, 

 fifteen to thirty bushels rice. Nine-tenths of the labor performed by 

 whites, and directed principally to collecting forest products, timber, 

 staves, shingles, naval stores, &c. 



GEORGETOWN COUNTY. 



Planiet'sville. Large inland swamps, not cleared ; pine upland, white 

 to gray colored sandy soil, Avith a subsoil of sand, sometimes of red clay ; 

 tide water rice lands, alluvial deposits, four to fifty feet thick. Price of 

 uplands, one dollar to fifteen dollars per acre ; of rice lands, three dollars 

 to fifty dollars per acre. Wages fifty cents per day. 



