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INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH AND SOUTH-WEST- 



CHARACTER, HABITS, AND MANAGEMENT OF SOUTHERN PLANTERS. ...NOTES ON THE' 

 LOMG-LEAF PINE.... TAR AND TURPENTINE INDUSTRY OF NORTH CAROLINA DESCRIBED 

 ....SALT NOT ADAPTED A3 A >UNURE TO C.VNE-FIELDS.... LETTER FRO.M (JENERAL 

 EDMUND P. GAINES. 



In Other places, and under various guises, have been already published some of 

 the scattering fruits of personal observation among, and of correspondence estab- 

 lished with intelligent land-proprietors and others, in the South and South-West, 

 while on a jaunt in early Spring as far South as Charleston, Savannah, Millodge- 

 ville, Macon, Columbus, Montgomery, Mobile, and so on to New-Orleans, and 

 along " the coast" to INatchez ; returning thence by the way of Augusta and Co- 

 lumbia, to " the place of starting." 



It is reported of Talleyrand, that on being chided by a lady for passing with- 

 out recognizing her, he at once replied — "Ah ! madam, if I had stopped to look 

 at you, I never could have passed !" Now we recommend to all men of taste and 

 sensibility, who have any inkling for good company and good cheer, and who 

 have any claim to the hospitalities to which we had so little, if they would make 

 progress on their journey, not to halt at the charming places we have mentioned — 

 charming emphatically at that season of the year, for a Northern man, when in 

 his own region "grim-visaged Winter" is wont to " linger in the lap of Spring" — 

 while there, impatient of delay, he decks himself in flowers and sallies forth 

 even in February to dance upon the green and bask in the genial sunshine. 



Two months have passed this day (June 3d), since, at the sumptuous table of 

 a friend in Mobile, supplied and served in the good old Virginia style, we met 

 that great luxury of the garden, strawberries, which have just now made their 

 appearance in like abundance in New- York. The splendid Cherokee rose-vine 

 was already growing over the tops of the locust-trees. 



But our purpose is to note what we could see or hear of, touching the great 

 staples of Southern Agriculture, and here we may as well at once remark, that 

 on few subjects does there exist so much delusion in the North, as in reference 

 to the habits and character and management of the Southern Planter. We do 

 not propose at this time to go into any extended remarks on these points, because 

 as yet we are not fully prepared with our facts ; but let him who would form a 

 judgment go and see for himself, and converse with them as we did in the social 

 and public circle, and if we are not egregiously deceived, he must admit that they 

 are nowhere to bctexcelled for that enlarged kuoAvledge of the true principles of 

 good husbandry, which has been gained not alone from books, but yet more from 

 eager and sagacious inquiry and conversational intercourse, and from that best of 

 all books, experience, in the resolute and skillful and industrious, yes, eminently 

 industrious, management of their own estates, whatever may be thought or said 

 to the contrary. 



Let the amateur or the connoisseur who would enjoy that most beautiful of 

 all prospects, large estates well and neatly managed, go and take a look at the 

 rice plantations in Georgia, and the cotton plantations of South Carolina and far- 

 ther south — such for instance, as Col. Singleton's estates, wide in extent, and yet 

 so much wider in renown for beauty and excellence of appearance and manage- 



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