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everybody admired the durability of the stuff which 

 had so long resisted the elements. In that year it 

 fell, and its place was immediately supplied by a 

 marble slab, erected by the sons of Daniel Ravenel, 

 who had planted the cypress head-board. Majori- 

 bank's fate was that of the soldier ; but yet, as we 

 view his lonely grave, and remember his high char- 

 acter and his unhappy end, we cannot but sigh at 

 the extinction of bright and ambitious hopes, nor 

 refuse our sympathies to the memory of a brave 

 man, whose spirit was yielded, unsolaced by a 

 mother's, a wife's, or a sister's ministering hand ; 

 whose grave was moistened by no tear shed by any 

 one who loved him. 



Some distance beyond the St. Stephen's line, and 

 just below the Eutaw Spring, was another settle- 

 ment, chiefly of Huguenot families, viz. : the Coutu- 

 riers, Marions, Gignilliats, Chouvenaus, Gourdins, 

 etc., besides others of English descent, the McKel- 

 veys, Ervines, Olivers, Kirks, etc. All of these 

 in the course of time were connected by intermar- 

 riage. The land was well adapted to the growth of 

 provisions and indigo, and in consequence of the 

 fertility of the high lands they escaped the full 

 measure of the calamities with which their neighbors 

 of St. Stephen's were visited when the river became 

 unsafe. The same picture of a prosperous and hap- 

 py condition with which I have introduced this sketch, 

 may be applied to this neighborhood also, and the 



