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156 Whenever I suggested to Americans the probability that their long range of Southern coast was wall suited for the culture of the olive, the suggestion was met with merriment. "There is no one in this country," they would say, "who looks fifteen or twenty years ahead." (The time it takes for an olive tree to come into profitable bearing) "Every body here supposes that long before so many years have expired he shall have sold his land very advantageously, or that hos business will have taken him to some other part of the country, or that he shall have made his fortune &retired from business." The same objection does not lie against the culture of tea, for which the uplands of Georgia appeared well adapted. Atlanta, I thought, the most flourishing place in the South. I saw several manufacturers there & much building was going on. If he 36,000 inhabitants. "Sir," said an Atlantan Gentleman to me, "this place is bound to become great & prosperous, because it is the most critical town of the Southern States." I suppose he had not yet been able to twist his unclearof the idea that the Southern States formed a political unit , & must have a central Capital. The cattle of the South must, during the winter, be among the most miserable of their kind. I saw nothing at all resembling what we call pastures & and if suck institutions (in America every thing is an institution, even the lift in an hotel) are known in the South they can be of little use at that time of year, for every blade of grass in America is then withered & dry. The cattle appeared to be left generally in the woods, & in the maize...