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hats, bokeets, baskets, and pretty dressing boxes, 

 a great deal being transported to Pensilvania, 

 and other northern parts of America, (where thej^ 

 do not grow,) for the same manufacture. The 

 people of Carolina make of the fans of this tree, 

 brooms, very servicable to sweep their houses 

 withal. 



We took up our lodging this night with the Bcr- 

 mudian ; our entertainment was very indifferent, 

 there being no fresh water to be had in the island. 

 The next morning we set away through the 

 marshes ; about noon we reached another island, 

 called Dix's island, much like to the former, 

 though larger. There lived an honest Scot who 

 gave us the best reception his dwelling afforded, 

 being well provided of oat meal, and several oth- 

 er eftects he had found on that coast ; which goods 

 belonged to that unfortunate vessel, the Rising 

 Sun, a Scotch man-of-war, lately arrived from the 

 isthmus of Darien, and cast away near the bar of 

 Ashley river, the September before, Capt. Gibson 

 of Glasco then commanding her, who, with above 

 an hundred men then on board her, were every 

 soul drowned, in that terrible gust, which then 

 happened; most of the corps being taken up, 

 were carefully interred by Mr. Graham, their lieu- 

 tenant, who happily was on shore during the 

 tempest. After dinner we left our Scotch land- 

 lord, and went, that night, to the north-east point 

 of the island. It being dark ere we got there, our 

 canoe struck on a sand near the breakers, and 



