DRAINAGE OF BLACK AND BOGGY SWAMPS, S. C. 3 
rately established than has yet been done. It should be the limit of 
high water from the Savannah Fiver. 
The general slope of the ground is southward toward the coast and 
westward toward the Savannah River, which is the outlet for all of 
the drainage of the district. The northern or upper end of the district 
is much more rolling and hilly than are the southern and western 
ends. The topography north of Shirley, Scotia, and Furman (see 
fig. 2) is very irregular, there being considerable stretches of high land 
now under cultivation, broken by large areas of flat bays and swamps 
