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maritime parts of the province and
which are so pernicious to health wherever
found In this country the soil
is of a fertility that even exceds the
back parts of South Carolina especially
on the River Savannah and it branches
to the west and North west of Augusta
and indeed all round that Town no
flat lands are found no swamps
no marshes but high dry tracts waving
in gentle hills and the vales watered
with numberous streams The
soil a deep black loam so rich that
there is scarcely any exhausting its
fertility

The soil and face of the country
in the maritime part of the province

resembles