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the compensation, generally given for labor in this region.

The plantations generally on this whole route, appeared like those we had visited before disented, destitute, dilapidated, decaying, and we were not surprised to find them generally for rent. About Schula Lake the plantations were higher and better. But every where the hands were few, and no one could even guess where the force should come from to work the plantations, even if the means could be had. 

Col. Miles also allowed his people to cut wood and sell it on their own account, to help out the meager pay of food and clothing for their labor. The eras has stripped most of the people of every string.

The land holders generally say that the