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of vegetables grow luxuriently if well cultivated. There is a white-sulphur spring within three miles of this place, and Chalibeate water in abundance. All that is lacking in [[strikethrough]] this [[/strikethrough]] this part of the Country, is a few interprizing farmers and Manufacturers from the North and easy transportation to market. There is no end to facilities for Milling, or Making Iron, that is, in the way of water-power or oer; and a splendid prospect for Coper. The indications for [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] Copper on the South Side of this Granate land
[[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] ^[[are]] not excelled at any Copper-mine that I have seen. But something greater and better remaining to be told, we have the best of clear cold [[fountain? limestone?]] water. The fruit is excelent I have not seen anywhere or at any time the apple that excells the apple that grow in the "Hollow". The Buckingham, Neverfail, & Limbertwig of the winter kind, or ^[[that]] keep in winter, grow to the greatist perfection.
 
There are many other kinds of summer, fall and winter apples. The peach grows well in this Co. Black-hart and Shagin Cherry grow furshing [[?]] Black-walnut and white and the wild-cherry grow along the Streams and in the Mountain Side, besides an abundance of Chestnuts and acorns and Ginsang on the mountain. About five miles square [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] in the "Hollow" is granite land, [[strikethrough]] In [[/strikethrough]] ^[[(excepting along the streams, that is alluvial soil, made from the mountain co [[?]] and rich.)]] The greater part of it is [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] decomposed granate of a Coars nature; but is very productive. The Hon. Robert Mclain said on one occasion that he had traveled over fifteen States in the Union, but this was the most desirable of any

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SI staff: It'd be helpful to get more guidance re: how to transcribe inserted text. I see it both ways in transcriptions in Freedmen's Bureau documents: ^[[that]] vs. ^[[insert]] that [[/insert]] Is there a "best" way of doing this? --Beth