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nated ' Crackers ' (from the noise, it said, which they 

 make with their whips when they come to town with 

 their teams) people to whom the eulogy is not appli- 

 cable which I have given the residents of the capital. 



South Carolina is not, like the other provinces 

 divided into Counties, but into Parishes and Districts. 

 Of these divisions there are at present 31 ; but they are 

 not all distinguished by determinate names. 



The money-basis of this province was formerly very 

 different from that of the others; that is to say, a 

 shilling sterling was worth 7 shillings South Caro- 

 lina, and consequently the guinea, 7 Pd. 7 shill. ; the 

 Spanish dollar 1 Pd. 12 shill. The paper-money made 

 by the state during the war was counted at this value. 

 But the British garrisons brought in the sterling basis 

 again, and this is still maintained, at least at the capital. 



