364- Nations lately become Literary. 



an University in Europe, in 1749."* Both of these 

 were eminent for literature and medical science. 



The literary foreigners who came to South-Ca- 

 rolina, at this early period, were numerous. Dr. 

 John Lining, a native of Scotland, and a man of 

 excellent education, came to that Province as early 

 as 1725 or 1730. He was eminent as a phy- 

 sician and philosopher." He corresponded with 

 Dr. Franklin on the subject of Electricity, and 

 was the first person who introduced an Electrical 

 Apparatus into Charleston. Dr. Lionel Chal- 

 mers, who came to the Colony from Great- 

 Britain in the former part of the century, was also 

 much distinguished for medical science, and for 

 his various and extensive knowledge. Dr. Alex- 

 ander Garden, also from Great-Britain, about 

 the same time, was deservedly celebrated as a phy- 

 sician and natural historian. Mr. Mark Catesby, 

 an English naturalist, came to South-Carolina in 

 the year 1722, and resided four years in the Co- 

 lony, where he did much for promoting the know- 

 ledge of Botany and Zoology/ To these may be 



m Dr. Moultrie wrote and defended a dissertation, De Febre Flava.. 

 He was afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of East-Florida. 



n In 1740 Dr. Lining prosecuted, and afterwards published, a series 

 of judicious statical experiments. And in 1753 he published a History of 

 Yellow Fever, which was the first account of that disease that had been 

 given from the American Continent. 



o Dr. Chalmers published a valuable work on the Weather and Dis- 

 eases of South-Carolina, London, 1776. But his most respectable and 

 useful work, is an Essay on Fevers, published at Charleston, in 1767. Be- 

 sides these, he made several smaller publications. 



p Mark Catesby, F.R. S. was born in England, in the year 1679- 

 He had an early and strong propensity to the study of Natural History ; 

 and having some relations in Virginia, he determined to gratify his taste 

 for inquiries of this nature, by exploring a part of the New World. He, 

 therefore, went to that Colony in 1712, where he staid seven years, ad- 

 miring and collecting the productions of the country. During this period 

 he made numerous botanical communications to his friends in Great-Bri- 

 tain. He returned to England in 1719 ; but soon afterwards, encou- 

 raged by Sir Hans Sloane, Dr. Sherard, and other naturalists, he 

 determined to make another visit to America, and accordingly embarked 

 for South-Carolina, where he arrived in May, 1722. He now remained 

 four years in the country, exploring Carolina, Georgia, the Floridas, and 



