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loam, six to eighteen inches to subsoil of sticky clay, beneath which sands, 

 gravel and chalk are found. Marl occurs on South Edisto river. Growth, 

 pine, oak and hickory. Crops, fifteen bushels corn, one-half bale cotton, 

 twenty bushels oats per acre. There is a large turpentine factory. The 

 tributaries of the Edisto furnish water powers for ginning and grinding. 

 Stock does well, and might be profitabl}'' raised. Wages for field work, 

 fifty, cents a day. One-third of the field work performed by whites. 

 Land for sale at four dollars to ten dollars an acre ; rents from two dollars 

 to three dollars. Generally healthy ; mild form of chills and fever 

 sometimes. 



Union, [E. D. 153) : Land level. Soil, fine, gray, sandy loam, three 

 inches to yellow sand subsoil, and eighteen to twenty inches to yellow 

 clay, containing sometimes numerous brown pebbles, which become mixed 

 with surface soil and give it a darker color. Growth of uplands, pine, 

 ash, hickor}^ and dogwood ; of the swamps, elm, poplar, ash, white oak, 

 gum. Crops, six hundred pounds seed cotton, ten bushels corn, fifteen 

 bushels rice, one hundred and fifty bushels sweet potatoes, three hundred 

 gallons sj^rup per acre. Besides the South Edisto river, there are Cooper 

 creek, ten feet wide, two feet deep, velocity two miles an hour ; Snake 

 creek, fifteen feet wide, four feet deep, velocity two miles an hour. Some 

 industry in shingles, hoops and turpentine. No attention paid to stock ; 

 it might be profitably raised. Wages for work, forty cents per day. One- 

 fourth of field work performed by whites. Mild form of chills and fever 

 in swamps, otherwise healthy. Lands sell at five dollars to six dollars an 

 acre, and rents for two dollars and fifty cents. 



Goodbye's, {E. D. 141) : Lands level. Soil, light sandy loam, with oc- 

 casionally a stiff strip. Subsoil, at six inches depth, light yellow clay. 

 Growth, pine, oak, hickory. One-third of the field labor performed by 

 whites. Lands sell from one dollar to five dollars, and rents from one 

 dollar to two dollars an acre. Some chills and fever. 



Van.ces, {E. D. 155) : Lands level, except along Santee river, where they 

 are rolling. Soil, fine sandy loam, beneath which is a yellow sand sub- 

 soil resting on red clay, that extends to a depth of twenty to thirty feet 

 on the river, and twelve to fourteen feet elsewhere, to the depth of the 

 wells in both instances. Growth, pitch pine. Crops, five to twenty-five 

 bushels corn, five hundred to fifteen hundred pounds seed cotton, ten to 

 forty bushels oats per acre. Marl occurs in abundance. Little attention 

 given to stock ; it might be profitably raised. Some lands for sale at 

 eight dollars to ten dollars an acre. Some chills and fever. 



Sumter County, (3d Sup. Dist. 1 0th United States Census.) 



Privateer, {E. D. 120) : Lands level ; light gray sandy loam, with sub- 



