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PREFACE

ANDOR obliges me to acknowledge that self interest is the groundwork of my present address to persons Emigrating to

the state of Georgia; but whilst I make this acknowledgment, I must be permitted to say that no personal advantage that I have contemplated, or expected, shall induce me to prostitute my pen, my feelings or my character, by an unfair representation, which could cause the poor Emigrant to raise his voice against me and say "you have deceived me." And I will be bold to say, that nothing contained in the following sheets will ever raise a frown from those who may be thereby induced to move into this State.

In this statement I have the prejudices of many people to encounter, who judge of the Pine Lands of this State from the value of Pine Lands in the more Northern States. Those Lands will bear no kind of comparison with the Pine Lands of this State; and I can venture to assert that there is no Land of any kind (unless near large Towns, where they are highly cultivated and forced by manure) that will produce a crop of any kind, of equal value to what may be made from the same quantity of Georgia Pine Land, when properly cultivated in Cotton.

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, 1801.

GEORGE SIBBALD.