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THE FAKMEKS' KEGISTER. 



fear injustice may be done the writer's mean- 

 ing in some minor respects. Because of the 

 haste ol' the writing, some of the words of the 

 letter were illegible, and possibly their equivalents 

 may not have been rendered by substitution 

 in the priming. — Ed. F. K.] 



overseer to do. A small boy or girl, for the pur- 

 pose of fetching wood or water, lending a child, or 

 Buch like things, I do not object to ; but so soon as 

 they are able to work oni 1 expect to reap the be- 

 nefit of their labor myself. 



18ih. Though last meniioned, it is not of the 

 least importance, because the peace and good go- 

 vernment of the negroes depend upon it — and not 

 less so my interest and your own reputation. I do, 

 therefori*, in cxplicii terms, enjoin it upon you to 

 remain constantly at heme, (unless called off by 

 unavoidable business or to attend Divine worship,) 



and to be constantly with your peoj)le when there. . _ _ 



There is no oiher sure way ol getting work well laining an account ol your visit to some parte ol 

 -oes ; lor when an over- j the "marl"' region ol New Jersey, which 1 have 



To the Editor of llie Farmers" Register. 



Bristol, October 8th, 1842. 

 Dear sir,— I read your letter ol the 28ih uliimoy 

 and a lew pages of ihe Farmers' Register, con- 



done and quietly by negroeb 

 looker's back is turned the most olthem will slight 

 their work, or be idle altogether. In which case 

 correction cannot retrieve either, but often pro- 

 duces evils which are worse than the disease. Nor 

 ib there any other mode but this to prevent thieving 

 and other disorders, the consequence of opportu- 

 nities. You will recollect that your time is paid 

 for by me, and il ! am deprived of it, it is worse 

 even than robbing my purse, because it is also a 

 breach of trust, which every iionest man ought to 

 hold most sacred. You have Ibund me, and you 

 will continue to find me, faithful to my part of the 

 agreement which was made with you, whilst you 

 are attentive to your part ; but it is to be remem- 

 bered, that a breach on one side releases the obli- 

 gation on the other. If, therefore, it shall be 

 proved to me that you are absenting yourself from 

 the farm or the people without just cause, I shall 

 hold myselfno more bound to pay the wages than 

 you do to attend strictly to the charge which is 

 entrusted to you by one who has every disposi- 

 tion to be your friend and servant, 



Geo. Washington. 



read wiili interest. In reply to your letter re- 

 questing a copy of the report on the geology o-f 

 Soutli Carolina, I regret that 1 cannot lay my 

 hands U|)on the two only copies vvfiich I have, 

 one of which you would be welcome to, though 

 it would not give you any of the intbrmation you 

 seek, as it was the report ol a short season, and re- 

 lates only to the west part of the state, which is 

 entirely in the primary region, and the opposite 

 extreme oi ilie " calcareous marl" region. The 

 lepori, like all the legislative documents of that 

 stale, wa«i published only in tlie two newspapers of 

 Columbia, which is one of the reasons why that 

 ourvey is so hitle known. The region which 

 contains the "solt lime-stone," makes its appear- 

 ance generally, irom about twenty to thirty miles 

 east ol the m ui route through Cheraw, Camden, 

 Columbia and Hamburg, extends to near the 

 seacoast, the "soil limesione ' appearing at the 

 surlace at intervals in that part ol ihe state, from 

 not being a homogeneous dcposile, Irom being 

 covered wiili newer depo^ites, and lirom tlie under- 

 lying or " gieen-sand" deposiie apjiearing also ia 

 that bell of countiy, as lor exam|)le at Mara' 

 li uH, on Pee D. e river, Waccamaw river, in 

 Horry dis.rict, Etfiugham's mill, near Eulaw 

 S|)riugs, on Santee river, and (if Bariram can be 

 relied upon,) in the river at Silver Bluff, below 

 Augusla or Hamburg, which place I visited, but 

 could not find what he discovered, though the 

 water might have been unusually low when he 

 was there. The localities of "soli limestone" 

 which I visited were but tew in number. The 

 first was Dr. Jameson's quarry, on the road from 

 Orangeburg court house to McCord's ferry on the 

 Smtee. It is very white, has the appearance of 

 a hard chalk, is burnt lor lime, and is among the 

 purest whicli I examined, containing 91.6 carbo- 

 nate of lime, 8.4 of argile [the pure matter of clay] 

 chiefly. It abounds in the ostrea selliformis. 



The eime but not so white was also burnt for 

 lime on Mr. Darby's plantation in St. Matthew's 

 parish. Two specimens were examined, one 

 gave — 



Carbonate of lime . - - 90.4 

 Argile and oxide of iron - - 9.6 

 The other, which was purer, 



Carbonate of lime - . - 92.2 

 Argile and oxide of iron - - 5.8 

 Among some of the other localities which came 

 under my notice, and from which 1 received speci- 

 mens, but did not visit, were Eulaw springs, God- 

 frey's lierry on the Pee Dee river, Swain's ferry on 

 the Edisto, Santee canal, &c. One of the finest 

 expositions of the " soft limestone" and which 

 always supply— and for the want of which we ' will one day be of great value for agricultural 



MARL AND SOFT LIMESTONE OF SOUTH CARO 

 I.INA. "chalk hills" IMPROPERLY SO 

 CALLED. NEW JERSEN GREEN SAND. 



[The inquiries in regard to South Carolina, 

 which drew forth the following letter, will be 

 sufficiently set forth by the answers. One of our 

 inquiries was caused by information very lately 

 received as to the existence of what was called 

 "chalk" in large quantities near Hamburg. This 

 we supposed to be indurated and very pure marl, 

 or soft lime-stone; but it appears from Mr. 

 Vanuxem's letter that the earth in question is 

 merely a clay, containing no calcareous matter. 

 In correcting this mistake, (under which we know 

 that some intelligent persons still remain,) as 

 well as in the statements of the localities and 

 kinds of actual calcareous deposiies, this letter 

 may be valuable to many persons in South Caro- 

 lina; and this we trust will excuse us to the 

 writer for publishing it without any omission, or 

 alteration of form as he mentioned, but which we 

 did not deem necessary. One change of form 

 only we would have desired, but could not 



