CRAVEN COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. l6l 



cover from his malady, and enjoy the blessing of 

 health, both of mind and of body. This asylum is 

 the pine land. Here is enjoyed an exemption from 

 intermittent fevers. 



But this exemption is purchased at a price which 

 is often fatal. In proportion to the salubrity of the 

 climate, is the danger attending exposure to one 

 less healthful. And the price of exposure is not 

 merely a simple and teasing intermittent ; but a 

 fever, sharp, severe, dangerous, and frequently 

 fatal. Few kinds of fever can be named more 

 dreaded by the people of Charleston than the fever 

 which is there found under the name of country 

 fever ; and yet we have often heard Dr. Couturier 

 declare that he had never seen a case of it in the 

 whole range of his extensive practice. Equally 

 dreaded and equally fatal is the myrtle fever of 

 Sullivan's Island ; and yet nowhere do we find a 

 higher enjoyment of health than in Charleston and 

 on the island, the seats of these dreaded enemies. 

 These are the price which the people pay for expo- 

 sure, and a price of the same kind is exacted every- 

 where else. So, when the people of Pineville would 

 be alarmed by the visitation of a hot and agonizing 

 fever, which threatened, if not speedily arrested, to 

 terminate fatally, the people of the surrounding 

 country would have no ailments of a more alarm- 

 ing character than the ordinary intermittent of the 

 climate. Now, so highly do we value the sensation 



