upon bottom lands it is not possible, on account of their being
unhealthy.

Two statements will be made to disprove this latter assertion, and we
will then admit it to be true, and prove it to be of no consequence.

The cotton planters, deserting the rolling land, are fast pouring
in upon the 'swamp.' Indeed, the impression of the sickliness of
the South generally has been rapidly losing ground (i.e. among the
whites of the South), and that blessing, health, is now sought
with as much confidence on the swamp lands of the Yazoo and the
Mississippi, as among the hills and plains of Carolina and
Virginia.--_De Bow's Resources of the South and West_.

Dr. Barton, of New Orleans, in a paper read before the Academy of
Science, says:

The class of diseases most fatal at the South are mainly those of
a preventable nature. In another place I have shown that the
direct temperature of the sun is not near so great in the South
during the summer as in the North. In fact, the climate is much
more endurable, all the year round, with our refreshing breezes,
and particularly in some of the more elevated parts of it, or
within one hundred miles of the coast.

Dr. Barton had forgotten that white men can not perform field labor in
the South.

But admit that white men had better work upon uplands,--the crop is
surer, owing to the less liability to frost and overflow; and good