WARE COUNTY. 595 



and 201 blacks ; total, 2,934. Amount of State tax for 1848, 

 $784 86. Sends one representative to the Legislature. 



Value of Stock in Trade, (fee. — The value of stock in 

 trade is $2,200. Money at interest, $34,095. 



Towns. — Waresborough is the capital, situated 163 

 miles S. E. of Milledgeville, 70 from Troupville, and 40 from 

 Holmesviile. It has a court-house, tavern, store, &c. 



Early Settlers. — The Hargroves, Hilliards, Tomber- 

 lines, and others. 



Religious Sects, Education. — Methodists and Baptists 

 are the most numerous. Very little interest is taken in the 

 subject of education. 



Face op the Country, Nature of the Soil. — The coun- 

 ty is flat, and interspersed with numerous swamps. The soil 

 is light and tolerably productive. The salt palmetto abounds. 



Productions. — Sugar-cane, cotton, corn, potatoes, &c. 

 Black seed cotton grows finely. Cotton averages about 600 

 pounds per acre. Peaches, melons, figs, and oranges, succeed 

 well. It is a fine country for cattle and hogs. 



Character of the People. — The citizens are said to be 

 hardy, industrious, and honest. Much good might be done 

 by the organization of temperance societies. 



Climate. — The climate is warm. Fever and ague prevail 

 in some places. 



Market. — Centreville, on the St. Mary's river, in Camden 

 county. 



Roads. — The roads are excellent. 



Game. — Game is abundant. Bears and wolves are often 

 killed. 



Swamp. — Okefinocau, formerly called by the Indians 

 E-cun-fi-no-cau, from Ecunnau, earth, and finocau, quivering. 

 The first was the most common among the Creeks, from Ooka, 

 a Choctaw word for water, and finocau, quivering : a little 

 motion will make the mud and water of the swamp quiver ; 

 hence its name. It is about 30 miles long, and 17 broad. Se- 

 veral rivers have their head waters in this swamp. In it are 

 several islands, one of which the Creeks represented to be one 

 among the most blissful spots in the world ; that it was inhab- 

 ited by a peculiar race of Indians, whose women were incompa- 

 rably beautiful ; that this place had been seen by some of their 



