 ... planter says, that cotton has destroyed more than earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions. Witness the red hills of Georgia and South Carolina, which have produced cotton till the last dying gasp of the soil forbade any further attempt at cultivation ;...  Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents - Seite 64von United States. Patent Office - 1853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 182 Seiten
...of the soil forbade any further attempt at cultivation ; and the land, turned out to nature, reminds the traveller, as he views the dilapidated condition of the country, of the ruins of ancient Greece." The effects of this, as exhibited in South Carolina, are thus stated in a recent address... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 182 Seiten
...of the soil forbade any further attempt at cultivation; and the land, turned out to nature, reminds the traveller, as he views the dilapidated condition of the country, of the ruins of ancient Greece." The effects of this, as exhibited in South Carolina, are thus stated in a recent address... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1865 - 496 Seiten
...of the soil forbade any further attempt at cultivation ; and the land, turned out to nature, reminds the traveller, as he views the dilapidated condition of the country, of the ruins of ancient Greece." The effects of this, as exhibited in South Carolina, are thus stated in a The £5,000,000... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1872 - 492 Seiten
...of the soil forbade any further attempt at cultivation; and the land turned out to nature, reminds the traveller, as he views the dilapidated condition of the country, of the ruins of ancient Greece." Dr. Daniel Lee, in his Progress of Agriculture, in the United States Patent Office... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 486 Seiten
...destroyed more land than the cultivation of cotton, the cultivation being pretty much a surface afTair. It exposes the land to the exhausting heats of summer,...ground. The piece of ground was 60 yards by 20, in place rffeet. A gentleman of this county has made more by planting a quarter of an acre than I expected.... | |
 | 998 Seiten
...earthquakes, eruptions of burning volcanic mountains, or anything else. Witness the red hills of Georgia arid South Carolina, that have produced cotton till the...quantity of ground. The piece of ground was 60 yards by 2(J, in place of feet. A gentleman of this county has made more by planting a quarter of an acre than... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1848 - 970 Seiten
...of the soil forbade any further attempt at cultivation ; and the land, turned out to nature, reminds the traveller, as he views the dilapidated condition of the country, of the ruins of ancient Greece." The effects of this, as exhibited in South Carolina, are thus stated in a recent address... | |
| |
