1 68 HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL SKETCH. 



water, but it no longer claims a monopoly of health. 

 And while other villages flourish in its neighbor- 

 hood, and the communication with Charleston has 

 become more easy, the sense of isolation, which once 

 gave its people a peculiar characteristic, no longer is 

 felt, and they have become cosmopolitan. The old 

 times have gone, never to return, and it is to call 

 back the memory of the first fifteen years of our 

 life, and of the two which followed our accession to 

 manhood, that we have made this humble attempt 

 to depict scenes which, though perhaps faded, can 

 never be forgotten. F. A. P. 



