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father then lived, but, in consequence of the teacher 

 suddenly leaving his charge, he returned home after 

 a month or two. In September following he was sent 

 to Dr. Roberta's Academy, near Statesburg, in Sum- 

 ter District, where he continued till 1805, when he 

 was admitted as a student in the South Carolina Col- 

 lege, then under the Presidency of Dr. Maxcy. 



In the summer of 1806 he attended a camp-meeting 

 in Rembert's settlement, of which he gives the follow- 

 ing account: 



" The number of people occupying tents was much 

 greater than it had been at two previous meetings of 

 the same kind in 1802 and 1803, in that neighborhood, 

 both of which I had attended with my uncle's family, 

 and at which wagons and awnings made of coverlets 

 and blankets were mostly relied on in place of tents. 

 The tents too (of this meeting in 1806), though much 

 smaller and less commodious than in later years, were 

 larger and better than at the former meetings. But 

 still, at the tents as well as at the wagons of the camp, 

 there was very little cooking done, but every one fed 

 on cold provisions, or at least cold meats. Compared 

 to those first two camp-meetings, this one differed also 

 in the more important respects of management and 

 the phases of the work of God. At the first one (1802), 

 particularly (which was held on McGirt's Branch, be- 

 low the point where the Statesburg and Darlington 

 road crosses it), I recollected little that looked like 

 management. There were two stands for preaching, 

 at a distance of about two hundred yards apart; and 

 sometimes there was preaching at one, sometimes at 

 the other, and sometimes at both simultaneously. 

 This was evidently a bad arrangement, for I remem- 

 ber seeing the people running hastily from one place 



