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Excessively wet, attended with caterpillars. 



SECTION XVI. SEA ISLAND COTTON STATISTICS. 



In a late Number of the Charleston Courier, we find a "Re- 

 port on Soils, Marsh Mud, and ike Cotton Plant," prepared 

 by Prof. Shepard, for the use of Mr. E. W. Seabrook, of Edisto 

 Island. We publish it below, in the hope that it will prove 

 interesting and useful to our readers on the seaboard of the 

 Carolinas, Georgia and Florida; and prefix some valuable 

 statistics upon the growth and price of the Sea Island cotton 

 during twenty-two years prior to 1841. These statistics were 



