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AGRICULTURAL REPOET.
[1874
of the choicest fruits, of the tropics as well as of the temperate i* zone.*
Along with the cotton bales of North and Central Mississippi, the lumber and turpentine of the vast Pine forests of the South would lind their way through this channel, to the great highway of nations. Nor would the ample grazing grounds which separate ihesc forests from the Coast long remain without a landmark to ^uide the traveller. May the day not be far distant, when one uninterrupted band of iron t-hali link together the wheat and cotton fields of Tennessee, and the Live Oak and Orange groves of the Coast of Mississippi. .
‘Through the courtcsy of Mr. I>. II. Green, the ('Lief Engineer, I have been rjiaceil in possession, both of the new location of the Gulf and Ship Island Ii. it., which will be found on the map, and of the results of the leveling? on the route, which for lack of spacc arc reserved for a subsequent Kejort.