CHAPTER XLVIII.
THE RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.
How the People have Lived .-- An Agricultural Community .-- Mineral and other Wealth of Virginia .-- Slave-Breeding in Former Times .-- The Auriferous Region of North Carolina .-- Agricultural Advantages .-- Varieties of Soil in South Carolina .-- Sea-Island Cotton .-- Georgia and her Railways .-- Probable Decline of the Rice Culture .-- The Everglade State .-- The Lower Mississippi Valley .-- The Red River .-- Arkansas and its Advantages .-- A Hint for Tragedians .-- Mining in Tennessee .-- The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky .-- Texas and its Attractions .-- Difference between Southern and Western Emigration .-- The End.

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