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turpentine, &c., untouched, except a little rafted down the Little Pee Dee. 

 There is a mill at Red Bluff, on the Little Pee Dee ; the river here has a 

 width of fifty-five feet, a depth of six feet, and a current of three miles 

 an hour. Crops, one thousand pounds seed cotton (many farms yield a 

 bale per acre), and fifteen bushels corn. Farm wages, forty cents to sixty 

 cents a day ; one-half of the field work done by whites. Little land 

 offered for sale ; prices range from five dollars to forty dollars an acre. 

 Rent, in money, is six dollars an acre, or one-third of the crop. 



