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revoked the leases of all that ground, and the planters left it wholly for a 

 new tract at Diamond Reef, where the water was so fresh that star-fishes 

 could not live. This single inroad upon Providence River probably cost 

 the planters there $150,000. It occurred late in the summer, and the ma- 

 rauders stayed there, picking up the fragments of the feast that remained, 

 until winter. Then a heavy fall of snow and rain, in conjunction with 

 an unusually low tide, chilled and so completely freshened the water as to 

 kill them all off. So it is related ; and it is said to have been some years 

 before that tract was re-occupied by planters. 



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REPR0DUCIK8 FOUll LOST AHMS. 



Similar traditions exist elsewhere along this "sound" coast, and the 

 planters stand in constant fear that the army of the enemy, which they 

 daily fight, ma}' at any time be suddenly reinforced from some invisible 

 quarter to an extent which shall make any contest useless. In 1878, for 

 example, after some rough and gloomy weather in the latter part of Oc- 



