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all of M'hich are tributaries of the Ogeechee, are, Deep, Buckeye, 

 Big, Shaddock's, and Pues, on the east side; and White Water, 

 Palmetto, Turkey, Hunger and Hardship, Okeewalkee, and 

 Tickee Hachee creeks on the west. 



Population, Taxes, Representation. — The census of 

 1845 gives to this county 3,258 whites, and 2,760 blacks; 

 total, 6,018. Amount of State tax returned in 1848, 1^1,757 45. 

 Entitled to one representative to the Legislature. 



Post Offices. — Dublin, Laurens Hill, Buckeye. 



Towns, &c. — Dublin, the county seat, is situated half a mile 

 from the Oconee river, 46 miles from Milledgeville, 60 from 

 Macon, and 120 from Savannah. It has a good court-house, 

 several stores, 65 houses, and 180 inhabitants. Colonel David 

 McCormick and Jonathan Sawyer, Esq., were the most active 

 in laying the foundation of this town. 



The public places are, Thomas Cross Roads, Hampton's 

 Mills, Laurens Hill, Buckeye. 



Face of the Country, Nature of the Soil, Average 

 Product per Acre. — The face of the country is rolling, The 

 soil has a clay foundation, with sand and vegetable mould in 

 the pine, and a good mixture of lime with mould and sand in 

 the oak. The great vein of soft shell limestone — which, be- 

 ginning at Cape Hatteras, and running S. W. to the Missis- 

 sippi, passing through this county — will always be a valuable 

 resource to the agriculturist, both in maintaining the original 

 fecundity of the soil and in affording the means of restoration 

 by carbonate of lime or marl, which, in more or less variety, 

 and in quantity inexhaustible, is found in most parts of the 

 county. On all these lands the average product, with the usual 

 cultivation, may be stated in cotton at 500 pounds per acre, 

 corn 12 bushels, wheat 10. 



Climate, Diseases, Longevity. — The climate is as plea- 

 sant as any in the United States — average temperature about 

 70. Vegetation suffers little from the cold. The diseases are 

 bilious fever and fever and ague, confined chiefly to the oak 

 woods. Of the pine region, at the distance of three-fourths of 

 a mile from the swamps, it may with truth be said that no por- 

 tion of the world is more exempt from all those diseases which 

 afflict man. 



