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6201. OLIVE, South Carolina and.—

If the memory of those persons is held in great
respect in South Carolina who introduced there
the culture of rice, a plant which sows life
and death with almost equal hand, what obligations
would be due to him who should introduce
the olive tree, and set the example of its
culture!—
To William Drayton. Washington ed. ii, 200.
(P. 1787)