SOIL, 



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Soil of JYorth Carolina, 

 North Carolina, in its whole width, for 60 miles 

 from the sea, is a dead level, A great proportion of 

 this tract lies in forest, and is barren. On the banksi 

 of some of the rivers, particularly the Roanoke, the 

 land is fertile and good. Interspersed through the 

 other parts, are glades of rich swamp, and ridges of 

 oak land, of a black rich soil. In all this cham- 

 paigne country, marine productions are found by 

 digging 18 or 20 feet below the furface of the ground. 

 The sea-coast, the sounds, inlets, and the lower parts 

 of the rivers, have uniformly a muddy, soft bottom. 

 Sixty or eighty miles from the sea, the country rises 

 into hills and mountains, as described under this head 

 in South Carolina and Georgia. 



Soil of South Carolina. 



The shore of South Cai^olina rises gradually from 

 the Atlantic ocean. The sea-coast is continually in- 

 tersected by inlets, creeks, and marshes^ causing a 

 number of islands. Some o^ them present a sandy 

 front to the sea; undulateQ with conical sandhills, 

 sixteen or twenty feet high; while the sides next the 

 inain land, are level and low, and are connected with 

 extensive marshes, intersected by creeks and inlets. 

 Their soil is of a very sandy nature, producing small 

 pines and bay trees, live oak, cedar, palmetto cab- 

 bage, palmetto royal, silk grass, myrtle, cassena, 

 ■wild olive, tooth-ach-tree, prickly pear, sea-side 

 oats, and scattering coarse saline grasses. Others 

 whose bounds are deep and extensive, possess a soil 

 ©f a sandy nature, extremely fertile ; and are wood- 



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