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mor flies through the village that he is dying. And 

 it was even so. The insidious fever, after amusing 

 his victim for some days, and lulling his friends 

 into a fatal sense of security, suddenly seized him 

 with a rigor so intense that neither the patient's 

 strength could resist it, nor mortal skill success- 

 fully oppose it, and before the hot fit could come 

 on he was dead. Another case of a similar charac- 

 ter occurred, and the people gratefully welcomed 

 the benignant frost, which stopped the progress of 

 the fever, and opened the doors of their prison- 

 house. The next summer, 1834, the fever returned, 

 and in that and the two succeeding summers it con- 

 tinued its ravages, until the most sanguine became 

 desponding, and the village was almost totally de- 

 serted. 



And as no cause could be assigned for the fearful 

 visitation, so health again mysteriously returned to 

 its ancient abode. By slow degrees the deserted 

 houses acrain received their tenants. Men beo^an to 

 forget their former terrors, and returned, and Pine- 

 ville is again the abode of a number of planters. 

 The prestige of its ancient fame still remains, to 

 give it a sort of metropolitan character over the 

 neighboring villages of Pinopolis, Eutawville, New 

 Hope, and others, which have sprung up, like an- 

 cient colonies, cherishing the sacred fires from the 

 hearth of the maternal state. It justly boasts of 

 its delicious shades, of its clear, cool, and refreshing 



