The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . ^bBpllM I. *«w nriFiiwIcli SOUTH OAPtOLINA SCALE OF MILES PopuUitlun of pliicoH Is IniJleatod bydlffLix-nt leCtc-cliig. thuBj 3»,0&0 und ovor CIIARLKSION 6,000 to Columbia 1,000 ti/rr,//.f, V.\A. I. SOUTH CAROLINA portion these marls have been petrified and con-verted into Buhrstone. In the east there are out-crops of the cretaceous, and occasional islands ofmiocene marls. The long-leaf pine and varietiesof oak, especially the water o
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . ^bBpllM I. *«w nriFiiwIcli SOUTH OAPtOLINA SCALE OF MILES PopuUitlun of pliicoH Is IniJleatod bydlffLix-nt leCtc-cliig. thuBj 3»,0&0 und ovor CIIARLKSION 6,000 to Columbia 1,000 ti/rr,//.f, V.\A. I. SOUTH CAROLINA portion these marls have been petrified and con-verted into Buhrstone. In the east there are out-crops of the cretaceous, and occasional islands ofmiocene marls. The long-leaf pine and varietiesof oak, especially the water oak, soinctimes shad-ing the fourth of an acre with its foliage, givecharacter to the growth. There are extensivebodies of very fertile swamps on the rivers, sub-ject, however, to occasional overflow, and backswamps equally fertile but needing largest recorded crop of corn ever grown onone acre was made here by Mr. Drake, of Marl-boro County. The yield was 256 bushels ofshelled corn. Sand and Red Hills.—A range of sand hdlsrises from the gentle slope of the Upper PineBelt and attains an elevation of 500 to 826 is interrupted by hills and elevatedlevels of red clay lands. Its northern bound-ary is the fall line of the rivers. It covers4,061 square miles; 29 per cent is under culti-vation, and the population is about 32 to thesqua
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