132 BASS FISHING. 



irregular masse?, amidst whose crags and crannies 

 the seaweeds grow, and shell-fish congregate. To 

 these spots, therefore, the larger fish repair for sub- 

 sistence. The skill of the sportsman is exerted in 

 hitting one of these detached masses, which are 

 separated many yards apart; and his sport depends 

 upon the accuracy with which he takes his drop. 

 Let him row over from Bay Point toward the Hil- 

 ton Head shore putting the last hammock,* on the 

 southwestern end of Edings 5 Island, in line with the 

 most northwardly point of the same island ; and 

 extend the chord of this arc, until he opens the first 

 woods of Chaplin's Island, beyond the Bay Point 

 beach. Dropping his anchor at the precise inter- 

 section of these two lines, he has the best ground 

 probably in the whole southern country ; where he 

 may, in their proper season, take black-fish, sheeps- 

 head, bass and drum in abundance, and, occasion- 

 ally, all of them on the same day. 



A third line was formerly drawn in confirmation 

 of the above ; it was by placing the last pines on 

 the Hilton Head beach in range with the mansion- 

 house of Gen. C, C. Pinckney, on Pinckney Island. 

 But this mansion no longer exists : it- was swept 

 away in one of the fearful hurricanes that vex our 



* An umbrella-shaped cedar now marks the spot. 



