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ed so much benevolence* and real goodness* that I * felt truly 
edified.* 
Upon the following day I was accompanied by Mr. Bacott and 
his brother-in-law* to St. Michael’s episcopal church* to see the 
building* and particularly the steeple* one hundred and eighty- 
six feet high. We mounted two hundred and thirty-six steps, 
and enjoyed a very handsome prospect over the regular built city, 
the bay, and adjacent country. The bay* with its protecting 
forts* showed to great advantage; the surrounding district not so 
agreeably, it being very level and overgrown with wood. In the 
city several buildings reared their heads* among others* the 
churches* and there are here twenty-two churches belonging to 
various sects* then the orphan-house and custom-house. St. Mi- 
chaePs church contains in itself nothing worthy of remark* if you 
except some simple funeral tablets. The churches* moreover* 
stand in the centre of burial grounds* and the custom still pre¬ 
vails* so injurious to health* of entombing the dead in the city. 
On the same day* the last of my stay in Charleston* I was pre¬ 
sent at a dinner which the German Friendly Society gave in com¬ 
pliment to me* having invited me by a deputation. The party 
met at half past three o’clock. The company was composed, 
with the exception of the mayor, Dr. Johnson* of more than 
sixty persons* for the most part Germans or of German origin. 
It was assembled in a hopse belonging to the society* in which* 
besides the large assembly room, was also a school for the children 
of the members* and the dwellings of the preceptors. The so¬ 
ciety was instituted in the year 1766, the principal founder was 
Captain Kalteisen* a native Wirtemburger* who had raised a vo¬ 
lunteer corps of fusileers from the Germans then living there* 
with which he not only distinguished himself in the defence of 
Fort Moultrie against the English, but also personally* during the 
whole war* rendered the most important services as adjutant quar¬ 
ter-master-general in the staff of the southern army. The com¬ 
pany of fusileers always preserved their connection with the 
German Society. Kalteisen himself died in the year 1807* as 
commandant of Fort Johnson; he was so attached to this German 
association, that he had himself buried in the yard of the build¬ 
ing, the bricks of the pavement mark the form of his coffin over 
it* and a tablet of marble in the hall contains an inscription to the 
memory of the deceased. In the great hall* his portrait hangs 
next to that of Colonel Sass, who after him commanded the com¬ 
pany, and of a Wormser, named Strobel, who was a joint founder 
of the society* and whose sons and nephew appeared at table. 
Two brothers* Messrs. Horlbeck* presided at the dinner* which 
was very well arranged. They had the politeness to nominate 
me an honorary member of the society* and to present me their 
