HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL SKETCH. 



This brochtire from the Charleston press ' consti- 

 tutes a sufficient text for us, while we seek to report 

 the domestic and social history, from the earliest 

 known periods of the region of country in which the 

 scene is laid. Our beginning is fairly made by Old- 

 mixon in his '' Carolina." '' We come now," saith 

 this old chronicler, '' to South Carolina, which is 

 parted from North by Zantee River. The adja- 

 cent county is called Craven County ; it is pretty 

 well inhabited by English and French ; of the latter 

 there is a settlement on Zantee River, and they were 

 very instrumental in the irregular election of the 

 Unsteady Assembly. . . . This county sends 

 ten members to the Assembly." This is all from 

 him, but it is enough. ''The Unsteady Assembly" 

 is, itself, a text. We shall expatiate on what he has 

 so briefly said, and to add to the extent of the history, 

 if we do not greatly increase its value. Our work 

 is not that of the review exactly ; but there is noth- 



' " The Golden Christmas : a Chronicle of St. John's Berkeley." Compiled 

 from the Notes of a Briefless Barrister. By the author of " The Yemassec," 

 " Guy Rivers," " Katharine Walton," etc. Charleston : Walker, Richards, 

 &Co., 1852. 



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