20 THE IKLAND PASSAGE. 



boats. Here you begin on Coast Chart No. 54 (or 

 154). Go up the Ashley River till St. Michael's 

 Church (which has the whitest spire) opens to the 

 north of the rice mills, and steer into Wappoo Cut, 

 which lies just south of some j^rominent buildings 

 on a point on the left shore. It will carry you with- 

 out trouble into the Stono Eiver. Here the chart 

 fails you, you ascend the Stono, keeping a westerly 

 course past the first branch to the north which heads 

 toward a railroad in full view. When a large mill 

 on the north side is reached a lead branches to the 

 south. This must be avoided, and a mill with a 

 tower will soon be reached. This is on Wadmelaw 

 River, where the chart resumes its proper vocation. 

 Thence across the North Edisto, the Dawho River, 

 thence into the South Edisto, around Jehossee, but 

 not through Wall's Cut, which the natives assured 

 me was not open. Just at the south j^oint of Jehossee 

 Island, Mosquito Creek enters the South Edisto ; 

 take the westerly lead where they branch just inside 

 the mouth, and then through Bull's Cut into the 

 Ashepoo ; down the Ashepoo and across St. Helena 

 Sound and either up the Coosaw and past Beaufort, 

 S. C. The name of the town being pronounced 

 Bufort, which is about as short as any route, or 

 across the Sound to Harbor River and through it 

 and Story and Station Creeks into Port Royal 

 Sound. This is a big place again and uncomfort- 

 able at night in a storm with a heavy tide and sea. 

 You now take Coast Chart No. 55 (or 155). There 

 is a special chart of the route from St. Helena to 



