SOUTH CAROLINA. 



SITUATION AND EXTENT. 



Miles. 



Sq. Miles, 



Length 250 >, $32° and 35° 8' North latitude. 



Breadth 170 5 uetween £ 78° 24' and 83° 30' West longitude. $ 24 ' 080 



Boundaries, divisions. ...Bounded by North Carolina on the north ; 

 by the Atlantic Ocean on the east ; and on the south, south-west, and 

 west, by the Atlantic Ocean, by the Savannah river, and a branch of its 

 head waters, called Tugulo river, which divides this state from Geor- 

 gia. South Carolina is divided into 28 districts, as follow : 



Districts. 



Population. 



Districts. 



Population. 



Greenville, 



> 13,133 



York, 



10,032 



Charleston, 



63,179 



Chester, . 



11,479 



Marion, . . , 



8,884 



Union, 



10,995 



Colleton, 



26,359 



Spartenburgh, 



14,259 



Williamsburg, 



6,871 



Marlborough, 



4,966 



Orangeburgh, 



13,229 



Newberry, 



13,964 



Lexington, 



6,641 



Georgetown, 



15,679 



Richland, 



9,027 



Horry, 



4,349 



Fairfield, 



11,857 



Sumter, . 



19,054 



Lancaster, 



6,318 



Pendleton, 



22,897 



Kershaw, 



9,867 



Darlington, 



9,047 



Abbeville, 



21,156 



Chesterfield, 



5,564 



Edgefield, 



23,160 



Barnwell, 



12,280 



Laurens, 



14,982 



Beaufort, 



25,887 



Face of the country, mountains. ...Except the high hills of 

 Santee, the Ridge, and some few other hills, this country is almost 

 one extensive plain, till you reach the Tryon and Hog-back moun- 

 tains, 220 miles north-west of Charleston. The elevation of these 

 mountains above their base is 3840 feet, and above the sea-coast 4640. 

 Their summit affords an extensive view of this state, North Carolina 

 and Georgia. The sea-coast is bordered with a chain of fine islands, 

 the soil of which is generally better adapted to the culture of indigo 

 and cotton than the main land, and less suited to rice. The whole 

 state, to the distance of eighty or a hundred miles from the sea, is 

 low and level, almost without a pebble ; but the country, as you ad- 

 vance in it, improves continually; and at 100 miles distance from 

 Charleston, where it begins to grow hilly, the soil is of a prodigious 

 fertility, fitted for every purpose of human life ; nor can any thing 

 be imagined more pleasant to the eye than the variegated disposi- 



