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left the same dull, unbroken line of road is seen — 

 their well-defined track is all. that breaks the mo- 

 notony of the forest ; and they, perhaps, even add to 

 its impressiveness by opening a vista through which 

 its extent may be more sensibly felt. Strange and 

 mysterious traces of life and of civilization ! To 

 what end do they appear to have been constructed ? 

 In this perfect solitude, whence do they come ? 

 Whither do they lead ? Strange, that in this spot 

 they should unite ! that they all lead to the grave ! 

 that one of them must have been the last over 

 which these innumerable slumberers must have 

 been respectively borne ! 



That portion of Craven County which lies south 

 of the Santee River comprises the parishes of St. 

 James, Santee, and St. Stephen. Its extent to the 

 north of the Santee appears never to have been de- 

 fined. Near the line which now divides these two 

 parishes stood the village of Jamestown, remarkable 

 as being one of the principal settlements of the 

 French Huguenots. In 1704 the Church of Eng- 

 land was, by act of Assembly, established in South 

 Carolina, and two years afterwards the French of 

 this town were, on their own petition, erected into a 

 parish and indulged with a ritual in their own lan- 

 guage. The whole of that long and narrow tract of 

 land, which extends from the canal into the sea 

 (about fifty miles), and lies between the river and 

 those parishes which constituted Berkeley County, 



