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. The following is a list of the most important localities in the State : 



Horry District. — Month of Little River, near the North Carolina boundary line; Tim- 

 ber landing, on Little River; Mr. Bessant's; Mr. Vaught's; Grissett's landing, Wacca- 

 maw River, above Conwayborough; Porter's landing; Harper's landing ; Waller's; Nixon's, 

 on Tilly's lake; Royal's ferry; Harris' landing; Harrelson's, near Galovant's ferry, Little 

 Pee Dee; Henry Davis, Gile's Bluff; Godfrey's ferry, Pee Dee. 



Marion District . — Witherspoon's bluff ; Mr. Fountain's; Mr. Zimmerman's. 



Darlington District. — Village of Darlington, numerous localities around ; Dargan; 



Col. Ervin's; Rev. Mr. Campbell; Swift Creek; Dubose's ferry ; J. M. Timmons; El- 

 more's; Dr. Muldrow. 



St. John's Berkeley. — T. Porcher, Esq., near Eutaw. 



Cooper River. — Dean Hall, the residence of E. N. Ball, Esq.; The Grove, residence of 

 Dr. Edmund Ravenel. 



Goose Creek. — The plantation of the late Geo. Henry Smith, Esq.; the plantation of S. 

 N. Steavens, Esq. 



Edisto River. — The Bluff, near Givham's ferry. This is the most southern exposure of 

 the Pleiocene marl known on the Atlantic slope of the United States. 



