go HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL SKETCH OF 



ing misplaced in subjecting countries to the same 

 treatment which we bestow on books. It is as an 

 old resident that we give our regards to Craven 

 County in South Carolina. 



Local attachments are strongest among the In- 

 habitants of the country. Those especially whose 

 youth has been nurtured among mountains, are 

 bound by a chain stronger than adamant to the 

 homes of their infancy. The denizen of a crowded 

 metropolis is vain-glorious, perhaps proud, of his 

 city, but he has no love for it. He forms a very in- 

 significant atom in the vast mass of humanity which 

 surrounds him, and he easily transfers his affection 

 to whatsoever portion of the w^orld may contain his 

 household gods. Not so with the rural citizen or 

 the Inhabitant of a village. No throng of uninter- 

 ested spectators ever torments him with a conscious- 

 ness of his own littleness. He feels that he is a man 

 of note ; that he holds a conspicuous and an import- 

 ant place in society ; he can calculate the political 

 value of his life. He doubts whether his existence 

 is not necessary to the well-being of the world ; and 

 he rewards, with the devotion of his whole heart, the 

 spot which confers such Importance upon him. 



It has been remarked, in many localities, that the 

 youth who had grown up amid them, however far 

 they may have roamed In quest of fortune, invariably 

 return to close their days within reach of the scenes 

 hallowed by their early associations. It is said that 



