A mixed earth of inferior agricultural quality.
1788. [Johansberg] has a southern aspect. The soil a barren mulatto clay, mixed with a good deal of stone, and some slate.—Tho. Jefferson, ‘Tour to Amsterdam,’ &c. April 11: ‘Works’ (1859), ix. 386.
1788. The plains [of the Marne and the Sault] are generally about a mile, mulatto, of middling quality, sometimes stony. The hills are mulatto also, but whitish.—Id., ix. 397–8 (April 21).
1796. The Mulatto soil [of Georgia], consisting of a black mould and red earth.—Morse, ‘American Geography.’ (N.E.D.)
1838. The mulatto mould of the Colorado does not surpass in fatness the alluvial soil of Red River.—The Jeffersonian (Albany), April 28, p. 88.
