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shallow, gravelly soil, with red subsoil of red clay, mixed with gravel ; 

 under the subsoil strata of red clay and sand of variegated colors, with 

 gravel, are found. Growth, red and white oak, hickory, ash, Avalnut and 

 short leaf pine. Crops, one-third of a bale of cotton, eight bushels corn, 

 five bushels wheat, ten bushels to thirty bushels oats per acre. Know of 

 no lands for sale ; rents are one-fourth the crops. Farm labor, from 

 twenty-five cents to fifty cents a day. 



No. 2. Township {E. D. 68) : Elevated, broken and hilly. Soil, fine sandy 

 loam, with red clay subsoil, underlaid by soft rock. Growth, oak, hickory 

 and gum. Crops, one hundred pounds lint cotton, six bushels corn, five 

 bushels wheat, fifteen bushels oats per acre. No land for sale, but much 

 rented for three dollars to four dollars an acre. Very little field work 

 done by whites. 



No 1. Township {E. D. 67): Elevated and mostly hilly, with some table- 

 land, considerable bottoms on Broad river and its tributaries. Soil, of a 

 gray, chinquapin, sandy loam, and red clay loam. Subsoil, red or mu- 

 latto clay. Growth, oak and hickory, and old field pine, the latter assist- 

 ing greatly the recuperation of worn out soil. Crops, three hundred 

 pounds to fifteen hundred pounds seed cotton, six bushels to twenty -five 

 bushels corn, fifteen bushels to fifty bushels oats, eight bushels to fifteen 

 bushels wheat per acre. Little land for sale, most of it rented for one- 

 fourth of the crop, or for from one to six bales of cotton for a one-horse 

 farm. Good water power at Lyles's ford, on Broad river. The Egyptian 

 or Means grass grows luxuriantly on the red lands. Wages of field labor, 

 fifty cents a day ; one-fifth of it performed by whites. 



No. 1. ToionsMp {E. D. 67) : Hilly ; three-quarters of the soil coarse and 

 sandy ; one-fourth stiff red clay. Subsoil, red or mulatto colored clay. 

 Growth, oak, hickory, pine and blackjack. Some land for sale at eight 

 dollars to ten dollars an acre. Wages, forty cents a day, except in harvest 

 time, then one dollar and fifty cents. One-fifteenth of the labor is Avhite. 



No. 5. Township {E. D. 71): Lands elevated and rolling. The soil is a 

 sandy loam. Subsoil, stiff red clay, underlaid by rotten granite. Growth, 

 red, white and blackjack oaks, and old-field pine. Cash price of lands, 

 in large tracts, three dollars ; in smaller tracts, six dollars to seven dollars 

 an acre. Most of it is rented ; field stock and implements furnished 

 for one-half the crop, or for from two to four bales of four hundred and 

 fifty pounds of cotton for one-horse farm. Traces of gold found, but not 

 mined. One-fifth of the field labor performed by whites. 



No. 4. Toimship {E. D. 70) : Elevated and broken. Soil, gray and yel- 

 low, gravelly, and sandy loam, and red clay loam. Subsoil, red clay. 

 Growth, oak and hickory. Crops, four hundred pounds seed cotton, ten 

 bushels corn, ten bushels wheat, twenty bushels oats per acre. Some 



