CAROLINA : -&-Btiar,: 



DEVIL FISHING. 



AH, Jean Ribault ! when, in 1562, thy bark, 

 long tossed by tempests, found anchorage at last 

 within the sheltered harbor of Port Koyal, and 

 thine eye rested, where no European eye had 

 rested before, on the sweet woodland scenery that 

 encompassed it about what exulting thoughts 

 must have 1 been thine ? "When, gazing with plea- 

 sure on that broad expanse of water so wide, 

 as the memoir of your voyage, yet preserved to us, 

 expresses it, "that the greatest ships of France, 

 yea, the argosies of Venice, may enter there in 

 safety" and with admiration, at the gigantic pines 

 that towered above the surrounding forests ; while 

 oaks, festooned with grey moss, or wreathed with 

 yellow jessamine, bathed their magnificent limbs 



in the ocean spray and the queenly magnolia 



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