Altogether there were 79 separate parcels of a hundred slaves or more, 156 of between fifty and ninety-nine, 318 of between twenty and forty-nine, 251 of between ten and nineteen, 206 of from five to nine, and 209 of from two to four, 96 of one slave each, and 3 whose returns in the slave column are illegible.[13] The statistics of the Georgetown and Beaufort districts, which comprised the rest of the South Carolina coast, show a like analysis except for a somewhat larger proportion of non-slaveholders and very small slaveholders, who were, of course, located mostly in the towns and on the sandy stretches of pine-barren.

The detailed returns for Georgia in that census have been lost.

Were those for her coastal area available they would surely show a similar tendency toward slaveholding concentration.
[Footnote 13: _Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States, 1790: State of South Carolina_ (Washington, 1908); _A Century of Population Growth_ (Washington, 1909), pp.

190, 191, 197, 198.] Avenues of transportation abundantly penetrated the whole district in the form of rivers, inlets and meandering tidal creeks.

Navigation on them was so easy that watermen to the manner born could float rafts or barges for scores of miles in any desired direction, without either sails or oars, by catching the strong ebb and flow of the tides at the proper points.