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been found to yield cotton and corn abundantly. Many of 

 the owners of these lands, are now directing their attention 

 to the manufacture of tar, pitch and turpentine, and no doubt 

 will, in the course of a few years, be amply rewarded for their 

 labour. The middle region of the State contains the oak and 

 hickory lands, the soil being of a red, rich, loamy character, 

 producing cotton, tobacco, and all the grains. Against the 

 system of cultivation which has long been pursued in this part 

 of the State, we have often taken occasion in this volume to pro- 

 test. Formerly these lands were very productive, but have 

 sustained serious injury from an improvident mode of culture ; 

 but we are happy to state, that great changes are daily taking 

 place ; and we hope that this beautiful region will soon be re- 

 stored in a very great degree to its original fertility. In the 

 southwestern portions of the State, there are large bodies of 

 very superior land. In the counties of Randolph, Stewart, 

 Baker, Decatur, Early, and in other sections between the 

 Chattahoochee and Flint rivers, lands are to be found of inex- 

 haustible fertility, producing every thing which the comfort or 

 necessity of man requires. That portion of the State known 

 as Cherokee Georgia, embracing the counties of Union, Lump- 

 kin, Murray, Cass, Walker, Dade, Floyd, Chattooga, Paulding, 

 Cobb, and Cherokee, contains much fertile land. The valleys of 

 Chattooga, Cass, Floyd and Murray, are exceedingly rich, pro- 

 ducing wheat, corn, Irish potatoes, beans, onions, &c. Cotton 

 does not succeed so well as in the middle regions. In the 

 country bordering on the Savannah river, as far up as Elbert, 

 and extending across to Broad river, the land, though long cul- 

 tivated, is still productive, and we know of bodies of land in this 

 section of the State, particulai'ly in Oglethorpe county, which 

 have been cultivated for more than half a century, and which 

 still produce 700 and 800 pounds of cotton to the acre. 



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Allapahaw river has its source in Dooly county, flows south- 

 east, then south, and discharges its waters into the Suwanee. 

 It is a hundred miles in length. 



