It would seem as if, away back in the distance of ages, some numerous and civilized race had drained from the soil the last atom of food-producing constituents, and that it is now slowly gathering back, as the centuries pass, the elements that have been wrung from the land.
Lower Georgia is very thinly settled.

Much of the land is still in the hands of the Government.

The three or four railroads which pass through it have little reference to local traffic.

There are no towns along them as a rule; stations are made every ten miles, and not named, but numbered, as "Station No.

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