The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-23

bluff thirty feet high Ave miles below
Lumberton, where seashels OF great
variety, are to be found, which goes
to show that the sand hills now one
hundred miles back from III sea,
were once the ocean shore. Bluffs
like this front on the river every FIVE
or ten miles throughout the course.
They make fine camping grounds.
Quail are plentiful on the uplands
Jack of these bluffs. Bathing facilities
are afforded on sand points opposite
the bluffs where the water is always
deepest. There is no mud in this re-
gion, and there are no insect pests.
Princess Ann bluff. a few miles |
above the town Of Fairbluf, is seven
ty-five feet high and rises in a truly
queenly name above the surface OF
the river. With its natural spring and
beautiful grove Of pines it affords an
ideal spot for the summer.
Fairbluf, where one can easily get
supplies, is a pretty. restful little
town of a handful of people. Six
miles by water below this point one
crosses into South Carolina, and TWEEN
ty-five miles further on the Little Pee
Dee emptieS into the Lurnbee and
steals away its name, a thing II never
should have been allowed to do, if
length and size count for anything in
the right Of way" of rivers. Not far
below the joining of these Driftwood
Island raises its high crest, from
which there is a view up and down
the stream. 1t is a beautiful spot.
Vast Hunting Preserve.
From G~allavant's Ferry on the Lit
tie Pee Dee to where it meets the
Great Pee Dee, is one vast hunting
preserve. This area is densely wood
ed and is SO difficult for the lumber
man that it Will long remain the home
for wild hogs, cats, fox, squirrel, deer,
bear and other game. The Flats OIL
BuZZard Reaches, so called, near the
mouth Of the Little Pee Dee. river is
q most beWildering and fascinating
piece of canoeing water. They ar.
made up Of a labyrinth of lakes
which cut across the course Of the Lit
tie Pee Dee for fifteen miles. Here
one is virtually a1oat in a cypress for
> est. Many of the lakes are separate,
from one another by single of double
: columns Of tall expresses giving tn
i effect of a collonade; the, trees Otter
| mirrOred in the waters Of the lake
they serarate.
S a sand island seven acres III eXten
in the centre Of this lake region i
) the only possible camping ground
big Ratchet a huge cypress know
ny lidl dil 10 IilcH IL OtItcI
all over the State Of South Carolina
: stands at the lower end Of thes
reaches. a short distance from an Oh
y landing in the swamp said to hav
been used by the Tories during tn
Revolutionary War. This tree nlarke
u the spot where those who knew migf
n land.
IT Entering the Great Pee Dee one
E borne rapidly along the 'yello'
l. urofo-.rB Our,o rl Observation-Disclosures -,o~tx
4 nine miles away. The power of tn
lie mighty river is instantly felt and al
n preciated. There is no installing IL
force OF its eddying swirl. Soon II
OF rice islands in the delta OF the riv.
divide the waters, and taking eith'
channel one bowls past plantation a
ne ter plantation on these rice island
which once upheld the wealth AT
chivAlry of the Southland. The, i
lands are now the winter home f
c. ducks that fly in from the sea
We nightfall to rest on sheltered waite
and to fee on wild rice CROWN
there. With the abolition Of slave
re and the discovery later that rice cou
G be grown successfully on the uplan
on Of Texas. these vast estates have fall
Sir into disuse, and some OF them ha
been abandoned by the once pro
re owners.
wn Only the magnitude Of the estat
lly and the beauty of the s~urroundin
OF created about their colonial HON
to remain to point the story of the pa
es. Railroads and roads crossing (
'ut river at various points make journe
Of varied lengths possible and predo1
no mating sunshine gives the air a "a,
lay soft, quality. even during the g:
lir. weeks Of winter" Bass, jack, bl
her beam, Inc red robin afford sport
anglers. Briefly, here autumn day
OF may be lived once, again by the y
derneSs lover on one Of the most bea
Try tiful waterways in the country, a
in the least changes and Oldest s.
ton Of the Southland.
rip BIOGRAPHY OF dob
by -
ere Esquire Barnes Tells Of Wilson G.