About the Book
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...sugar, wheat, rye, corn, oats, millet, barley, buckweat, peas, beans, sorghum, broom corn, sunflower, guinea corn, sweet potatoes and Irish potatoes. Hemp, flax, and hops grow luxuriantly. Of fruits, the orchards show apples, pears, quinces, plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries, oranges, lemons, olives, figs, pomegranates, the American date, and persimmons of many kinds. Of berries, there is the mulberry, raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, buckleberry, &c. Of nuts--walnut, pecan nut, chestnut, hickory, hazel nut, and chincapin. The grape grows luxuriantly in every portion of the State. A good farm can be had in South Carolina, as cheap, and perhaps cheaper than anywhere in the Union. The bureau of immigration has lands registered at from one dollar to five dollars per acre. Farms may be obtained having buildings and fences, and cleared lands enough for a family to work, for five hundred! dollars and upwards, according to situation and' improvements. The payments can in all cases be made to suit the convenience of the purchaser. This being one of the oldest settled States, there are no public lands remaining, but the immigrant finds an established society, churches, schools, good roads, bridges, and an orderly well regulated neighbourhood wheresoever he goes. Industry, careful management, and patience, will succeed here as speedily as elsewhere in acquiring comfort and a competency. The port of Charleston is connected by a system of railroads with all parts of the State, and the whole country. The port of Georgetown, and the splendid Port Eoyal, situated in a rich and fertile region, enjoying a pleasant and salubrious climate, are deep and capacious, enough for the manoeuvres of the largest war vessels in the world. The population of Charleston...
