I had at the start more or less difficulty in locating the 

 plantation of Walter. The preface of his book is dated, 

 * 'Carolina Meridialis, ad Ripas Fluvii Santee, 30 Dec. 

 1787. ' ' But it was a long stretch from the ocean to where 

 "the Wateree and Congaree unite to form the Santee," as 

 the source of this river was mysteriously indicated in the 

 geography of my boyhood. Dr. Small, the learned author of 

 the new Flora of the Southern States, kindly helped me out 

 by showing me a map of the old Santee Canal in Drayton's 

 ''View of South Carohna," (pubhshed 1802). On this map 

 Walter's place is noted near the northern end of the Canal. 

 On reaching Charleston all further needed information was 

 courteously furnished me at the rooms of the Historical So- 

 ciety on Broad St. 



On the evening of March 27th I found myself in most com- 

 fortable quarters at Mrs. Kroopman's Inn at Eutawville, with 

 all arrangements made for the drive of fifteen miles and back 

 on the morrow. It proved to be a most delightful trip, aside 

 from the matters of interest that awaited me at my destina- 

 tion; and I trust the readers of the Bulletin will pardon the 

 enthusiasm of a northerner, accustomed all his life in the 

 month of March to icy fields and blustering winds, who for 

 the first time finds himself, instead, in the genial air of sum- 

 mer, surrounded by a bewildering display of strange plants 

 and birds, traveling along a great highway built before rail- 

 roads were dreamed of, through a famous battlefield of the 

 Revolutionary War, and in view of that wonder of Nature, 

 the broad limpid boiling waters of the Eutaw Springs. I was 

 told that ''the old Charleston road," that I followed for about 

 ten miles, was built at great expense over one hundred and 

 fifty years ago, and extended across the whole width of the 

 lowlands, from the coast to Columbia. Much of the way it 

 was closely lined by large native trees— oaks, pines, cedars, 

 sour gums— apparently self-sown; and mingled with these 

 were luxuriant flowering shrubs in all their glory,— the dog- 



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