128 BURKE COUNTY. 



A. Burton, Absalom Pryor, John Whitehead, Capt. X^ett,' M. 

 Marshall, Hugh Alexander, Wm. Greene, Clark Key, John 

 Emanuel, David Emanuel, Capt. Whitaker, Daniel Evans, 

 Lark Robinson, Wm. Paramore, John Fryar, James Rawles, 

 Basil Grey, Samuel Lassiter, and Wiles Davies. 



Minerals. — Dr. John Ruggles Cotting, in his report of a 

 Geological and Agricultural Survey of Burke and Richmond 

 counties, has given to the public much interesting information, 

 and the compiler of this work acknowledges himself indebted 

 to this gentleman for the most of what is here said in regard 

 to the rocks and minerals of Burke. 



Beds of marl at Shell Bluff, Brushy creek, Briar creek, 

 and calcareous marl in many of the springs, and in the banks 

 of creeks, and forms much of the sub-soil of this region — 

 abundant at Shell Bluff, at the south end of Harris's and Ben- 

 noch's Mill and Buck Head creek. 



Limestone, making good lime, is inexhaustible at Shell Bluff. 



Gypsum near Stone Bluff. 



Burr stone in almost every part of the county. 



Brown oxyde of iron, 16 miles northwest of Waynes- 

 borough. 



Chalcedony at Stone Bluff. 



Agates " " 



Pitch Stone " 



Jasper " " 



Fossils are abundant, among which are ammonites, encre- 

 nites, spantangus, area, buccinum, oliva, lucina, pecten, ba- 

 lanus, and cardita cytheria. 



Nature op the Soil. — The soil is fertile, and is constantly 

 improving ; peculiarly adapted to cotton, corn, &c. 



Remarkable Places. — Burke Jail is noted for a battle 

 which took place in 17^9 between the British, commanded by 

 Cols. Brown and McGirth, and the Americans, under the com- 

 mand of Cols. Twiggs and Few, in which the latter were vic- 

 torious. In this engagement Capt. Joshua Inman, of the 

 Americans, killed three of the enemy with his own hand. 



Shell Bluff, on the Savannah river, is about 80 feet high. 



Productions. — Cotton and corn are the chief productions. 

 Rye, oats, and potatoes are successfully cultivated. Orchards 



