The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-06-23


the distance. fare, &c, will give it ~
Camden you can get ticket to hugusts,
1856 miles, fare $500, and from Augusta to
Albany, you can get ticket for tll.00,
distance 27l miles so th at a traveller San
leave Camden on the mornn train and by
St o'clock 1he next morning no will be ia
Albany, distance a26 miles, fare 1900. As
have been more occupied with the roads
than the Crops, will have to ask the rca.
der TO step lack to Clairmont, Sumter
District, =. G.
At that place the crops of both corn and
cotton were larger than nt any place had
noticed above there. The crops at no point
on the road through South Carolina and
Middle. Georgia are remarkable for anything
but the regular stands and healthy app ear
ance, Of both corn and cottoh. The oat
crop through the whole way may be regar-
ded as almost failure, and the wheat is
also poor, TO particularize would say
that the best corn and cotton on tho road,
from Lancaster e. H., 20 Miilin, Ca, would
be found in St. Matthew's Parish Orange
burg. Though the crop is generally smsh
the stands seem to be remarkably good but
when arrived in the neighbo,hood Of Al
bany, which is called Southwestern Geor-
gia. The stranger Gas I wrs) would think
that he had Teen let down in n different
hemisphere. The crops are so much far
ther advanced, much of the early planted
corn was out in full bloom, noticed NJ
many as three silks upon stalk. and that
not in the Garden, rs some may suppose,
from 100 to 200 acres. The cotton crop too
is very promising should the lice not injare
IL, as there nre some to DO seen already
Dougherty County is the one which ] waa
mostly over. The county is divided by
what is called the big Pocosin" into two
different soils both Of which are very fine.
The one is = pine land entirely sandy soil.
and the other an oak and hickory land. n
rather red grayelly or course sandy soil -
the cotton upon the oak lands is generally
better at this time. ! saw aud pulled up
two stalks Of cotton upon the plantation
of Judge Pace, which were full three feet
high, ench Of which had two or three blooms
upon them, aid these were only n fair suIn-
pie Of the field, from which they were ta-
ken. The cotton upon the pine lands 10
not quite 80 tall but equally an we'll formed
| also procured samples from the farm Of
J. J. Collier, Esq, which were very full Of
forms and blooms, but not quits ~ tall M
those from the plantation Of Judge Pace
fear am making my letter quite too long
and must hasten TO II close, will, however,
notice some Of the natural curiosities Of
this country, Of which there nre many.
The country nbounds with sinks or
springs, mary Of which have subternnsous
passages to the river, or sons other place.
unknown to me the most remarkable of
thess curio.i,ies is Shs Dlue Spring situated
some three miles South east of the city
This Spring Of itself would be enough to
amply repay the curious to visit this coun-
try it is some forty feet in diameter and
lis depth is unknown I was informed that
ii had been sounded some seventy or eighty
feet, vii out ever finding bottom, notwith-
standing it's great depth, the water Of this
Spring is so transparent that you can see
the white sands upon the bottom as plainly
as il they Were not three feet from youand
the tish, fesr TO attempt a description Of
them, lcns; !, might be taken for Fish
Story" for confess my creduity would not
have been sufficient, without first seeing
but without further Prefacing the story, I
will pitch into il The Sph ng is literally
studded with fish, from to - inches long;
the Spring is substantially walled round
with solid lime rock-natures own work
and suddenly from where the water boils
up, there is channel makes of some fiji
teen feet wide and from ok TO eight feet
deep. There is a mill erected some forty
yards Lelow the Spring and slight dam
thrown across the current, forming a beau
tifui pond Of some feet water and some
thirty yards wide, making an ent,cing re.
irea, for the FISH at night, at which time the
angler avengss himself (gig in hand) for
their indifference about taking hold Of his
tempting bate, let this suffice for the Blue
Sp;inE. There are numerous other springs
Of less note through the country together
with many large ponds, all Of which abound
with fish. ..
] must now say word about the city its
population, etc. Albany is situated on
Flint River in Dougherty County, between
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