[Newspaper]
Publication: Southern Field and Fireside
Augusta, GA, United States
vol. 1, no. 6, p. 47, col. 1
(Written for the Southern Field and Fireside.)
PORCELAIN — KAOLIN.
DR. D. LEE: In reading, just now, your highly interesting and instructive editorial, on "Southern Manufacture of Porcelain," in your issue of the 18th inst., perhaps, it would be well to call your attention to what appeared to me, when I saw it several years ago, a splendid lot of Kaolin, the finest indeed I have ever seen. It is in Richmond county, about fourteen miles from Augusta — is from one to two hundred yards, (I’m not sure of the distance,) South, or South-east, of the Richmond camp-ground. Go to the camp-ground; then take the direct road to Brothersville; go down the hill, to the ford of the little rivulet that rolls in beauty o'er its pebbly bed; cross this stream, and immediately on your left, at the very road side, you may see any quantity of Kaolin, beautiful enough, and, from its appearance, I suppose pure enough, to excite almost to frenzy any covetous Chinaman, that ever lived.
I am glad that a porcelain factory is in progress just over in South Carolina, (for I did not know it before,) I call attention to the above, hoping that somebody may go to work at it, for the good of all of us.
Very respectfully,
WM. HAUSER.
Speir’s Turnout, Ga.. June 21st, 1859.
