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strictness of religious habits that always character- \ 

 ized him. Being unable to preach for them, he con- ] 

 ducted their domestic devotions with the greatest pro- / 

 priety. 



Thus the preachers chosen to labor for the year 

 1785, in South Carolina, confined not their operations 

 to Charleston and Georgetown, for which they are 

 named in the Minutes — for these were only prominent 

 appointments within circuits which they were expected 

 to form — but passing up the principal rivers of the 

 State where the chief settlements were to be found, 

 left behind them foot-prints distinctly to be traced 

 on the banks of the Pedee and Yadkin, Santee and 

 Wateree, Congaree and Broad rivers, even to the 

 remotest limit of population. The people being scat- 

 tered over a large tract of country exposed the itin- 

 erants who traveled among them to many serious 

 inconveniences, while the bogs and morasses through 

 which they had to pass often placed their lives in 

 dangers of the most alarming nature. On an average 

 they had to ride about one hundred miles a week, and 

 to encounter difficulties to which their successors were 

 utter strangers, who had public roads provided for 

 them, and bridges to preserve them from the quag- 

 mires and torrents that intersected the deserts. But 

 through all these perils the gracious Lord preserved 

 his faithful servants, and caused his work to prosper 

 in their hands. Bishop Asbury returned on his second 

 visit to South Carolina, reaching Mr. Dunham's, in 

 Britton's Neck, January 4, 1786. He says: 



We crossed Great Pedee and Lynch's Creek, and wet my books. 

 Coming to Black Mingo, Ave lodged at a tavern, and were well used. 

 Sleeping up-stairs, I was afraid the shingles, if not the roof of the 

 house, would be taken away with the wind. 



Saturday, 7. I preached at Georgetown twice to about eighty peo- 



