tion of the country, must have lived
about Nelson's ferry and Scott's lake. In passing up the
river, the Indian path led over a hill, where he saw, as he
says, "the most amazing prospect I had seen since I had been
in Carolina. We travelled by a swamp side, which swamp, I
believe to be no less than twenty miles over; the other side
being, as far as I could well discern; there appearing great
ridges of mountains bearing from us W.N.W. One Alp, with a
top like a sugar loaf, advanced its head above the rest very
considerably; the day was very serene, which gave us the
advantage of seeing a long way; these mountains were clothed
all over with trees, which seemed to us to be very large
timbers. At the sight of this fair prospect we stayed all
night; our Indian going before half an hour, provided three
fat turkeys e'er we got up to him." The prospect he
describes is evidently the one seen from the Santee Hills;
the old Indian path passed over a point of one of these at
Captain Baker's plantation, from which the prospect extends
more than twenty miles; and the Alp, which was so
conspicuous, must have been Cook's Mount, opposite
Stateburgh.--Our traveller afterwards visited the Congaree,
the Wateree, and Waxhaw Indians, in South Carolina, and
divers tribes in North Carolina, as far as Roanoke; and it
is melancholy to think, that all of these appear to be now
extinct. They treated him with their best; such as bear meat
and oil, venison, turkeys, maize, cow peas, chinquepins,
hickory nuts and acorns. The Kings and Queens of the
different tribes always took charge of him as their guest.

LIFE OF MARION.

Chapter I. (EARLY HISTORY)

Birth of Gen. Marion. His Ancestry. First Destination of
Going to Sea. Voyage to the West Indies and Shipwreck. His
settlement in St. John's, Berkley. Expedition under
Governor Lyttleton. A Sketch of the Attack on Fort
Moultrie, 1776. And the Campaign of 1779.

FRANCIS MARION was born at Winyaw,* near Georgetown, South Carolina,
in the year 1732;--memorable for giving birth to many distinguished
American patriots. Marion was of French extraction; his grandfather,
Gabriel, left France soon after the revocation of the edict of Nantz, in
1685, on account of his being a protestant, and retired from persecution
to t