The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1868-06-03
u n From the Raleigh Register. '2 '@i
LETTER FROM aITINERANT."


Wilmington and MANCHESTER Railroad, at
Flenington Station, will find bimself on the
soil of Brunswick county, n. c. Fleming
ton is "a miles from Wilmington, en- route
ior Columbia. and Brunswick is the most
soulherly county in Aort' Carolina--and
the must swampy. .ataas.sa.nfsl4Eaa a.I !
LAKE wACcAMAw. g4.| ID .y4ass
Z A short walk Vt .ne.ioui tn OF q mile will
bring the traveller to the Top OF a. bluff, some
fifteen lee. high, that .o.erlooks one of the
mos, beautiful sheets Of fwater | have ever
bebeld. 1t is Lake Waccamaw. This
singular sheet Of water is seyen miles long,
by five wide. Its oval shaped. and. from
Ithe blud. every part oi the surface can be
seen at one glance. small sail beat could
hardly hide ITSELF event ~ cove from the
fo0seryer.l .l0 s4.a sEaH@.@ sa8 pEy as.s
TIMBER WALLS. @<a
Lake Waccainaw is entirely surrounded
By the native trees. excepting lew lltue
openings made by the farmers sxe, and
right al your tset, below the bluff, stands "a
i" shlpgie she'd" Il contains a steam en-
CINE and machinery Tor saving and spiIt.
ting the cypress and juniper wood, aud
shaving it into shingles Tor Northern mar
kets. Ii stands directly on the margin coi
the lake. #.a4 -@** ~>. .. twHt
The outline Of this scene lacks variety,
Al no psint does the height of the bluff ex-
ceed 20 feet, and al some points /, falls Ia
ID eve with the water. On the south side
lit is a swamp. and this is filled with fine
variety ii iimber--eypress, juniper. pine,
gun, ash, maple. live oak aud white OAK,
hickurv, buckeye and other wood. These
are what The practical eye sees. Thesloyer
Of na,ure would complain, al first view, o
monntony. 1t isfhe opposite Vt mountain
lake scenery, and the Valley Virginiar
rwoald hardly sdmirefit. He would make
the Complaint once made by Shenandoah
/ virginian Of the prarie regions Of the west
4 Western man, visiting the Valley, ss,
sdiscanting upon the excellence oi Prarl'
lands and pretty scenery, aud was halted
bv ,hs Shenandoah farmer. who waved hi!
heavy hand along the line of the Blue
Ridge, on one side, and the North Noun
tains on the other, and his eye spark led a!
he said "Ah, your wairies may Ge rich
but. sir. your region lacks the Jrtngss ant
ra5les."
SHELL nARL. as.
The bluff you "ccupy Is undrrlaid with
hard rock, oi shell iuArl, evidently salt
water Gurrnatinn. IL seems Ia underIie d
large part Of the lake. IL is composed o.
ayster aha clam shells. Ii is plain that thr
sra once extended over tins lake and in
deed, the ocean is now only thirty or fort!
miles distant.
When the ocean recetled in past age
i, seems 10 have left this lake behind, ant
but lew il any important changes nave Ia
Ken place since, except that the water u
now fresh instead Of salt. Not tree, moi
even stump or runt is TO be iouHd IN II.
pEPTH.
The depth ol Lake Naeeamaw varies a.
YOU leave tue share. A man on hoTseoacS
can ride entirely aroand the lake, they cay
in the water near the shore. There IT IL d
sandy beach. but a, YOU approarh inc cen
Ire the water deepen,. For u quarter 81
mile, i, hardly exceeds four iret' thei
romes, say two leet tall, and Tor another
quarter i. il six feet, then annther step o
tive more feet. then basin, sa, twenty o.
thirty iret deep. The basin has a MUDDY
bottom but his is natural. mud belong
To a lake ui water. Did YOU ever thInk q
the incongruity Of sentence mat place
lHudd iu ., DrY .rrtugas. ! wonder tn
| u. 5. Guycryment does not see thls o'un
der. and send the package. to wet'er place
80 rHE INMATES.
Lake Waccamaw is famous Tor lis FISH
both lor variety and abundance. Trout
rourle.cycs, several varieties nf perch. anC
an. Chesterfield, fish the man called yal
Ter bellies. .. j.. -.....v ,H4
pic, Mic parties visit this l,sMng pac,
| frum wilmirgton, Columbia and al inter
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