“The quality of its canebrakes soon became the standard by which early settlers estimated the value of land. If the canes grew no higher than five feet, or the height of a man’s head, the soil was deemed ordinary; but a growth of twenty or thirty feet indicated the highest degree of fertility.”
– John H. Logan
A HISTORY OF THE UPPER COUNTRY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (1859)
[from a post by Clifton Hicks on Facebook]