CIS TRANSPORTATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



17C(). From near Fort Motte, by McCord's ferry, over the Coiigaree, just 

 above tlie point of its confluence with the Wateree, along the west 

 side of the Wateree to Fishing Creek, " so far as the Province 

 extends," about 110 miles. 



170G. From near Fort Motte, up the west bank of the Coiigaree, across 

 this stream at Howell's ferry, " through the Forks of the AVateree 

 to Lee's Fort," about 80 miles probably. 



1768. In conjunction with a ferry across Peedee, near Society Hill, two 

 roads, one on northeast side of Peedee, connecting Bennettsville, 

 Marion and Conwayboro with Georgetown, and so with Charles- 

 ton, about 150 miles of new road. The other, from Cedar Creek, 

 through Society Hill, Darlington and Kingstree, to Fort ]Motte 

 road, about 90 miles. 



1768. From Orangeburg, across the Saluda, near Rocky Creek, through 

 Newberry, to Laurensville, about 110 miles. 



1770. From Orangeburg, across the Edisto, through Ninety-Six, across 

 the Saluda, through Abbeville to Pendleton and beyond, about 

 170 miles. 



1770. From Augusta, through Edgefield, across Saluda river, near Nine- 

 ty-Six, across Enoree river to Broad river, at Fishdam Ford, about 

 100 miles. 



The highways were ordered to be constructed b}" the personal labor of 

 the inhabitants of the country through which they respectively passed, 

 which seems certainly to have been a hardship upon those thus burdened. 



The road laws then in force in England required personal labor on 

 local roads, but the main highways were maintained at the expense of 

 the whole public. The Colonial Legislature, as we have seen, had at 

 first only local roads to make, and these were sanctioned by military 

 exigencies, hence it was quite appropriate to have them built and kept 

 up by the neighborhood, according to the English system, but when the 

 time came to build highways so as to connect the capital with the distant 

 parts of the Province, then only recently settled, the law-makers seem 

 not to have recurred to English precedents ; they simply applied to these 

 highways the laws in force for the construction and maintenance of the 

 roads previously built, which were wholly local. 



Besides this hardship of making the dwellers along a highway keep it 

 up for the convenience of a traffic in which they have no interest, there 

 were special circumstances Avhich made the road law more onerous in the 

 upper country tlian in the low country. 



In the first place, in the low country the large number of slaves ren- 

 dered the burden of road duty in that section comparatively light on the 



