* The Mose of history has been so much in love with Marz, that she has seldop

couTersed with Minerva.” Henry.

CHARLESTOX:
FCBLISHED BY DAVID LONGWORTH, FOR THE AUTHOR.

1809.

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District of South-Carolina, to wit:
B

E it remembered, that on the seventeenth day of March, anno Domini one thousand

right bundred and nine, and in the thirty-third year of the independence of the Unit ted States of America, Doctor David Ramsay of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

" The history of South-Carolina from its first settlement in 1670 to the year 1808, by David Ramsay, M. Ď.

"The Muse of history has been so much in love with Mars, that she has seldom conversed with Minerta. Henry.”

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled " an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the nuthors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and also to an act entitled * as act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therrin mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of desiguing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

THOMAS HÁLL,
Clerk of the district of South Carolina.

OF

VOLUME II.

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PAGE
I. Ecclesiastical history of South-Carolina,

1
II. Medical history,

49
III. Legal and constitutional history,

121
IV. Fiscal history,

160
V. Agricultural history,

199
VI. Commercial history,

232
VII. Of the Arts,

243
VIII. Natural history,

272
IX. Literary history,

352
X. Miscellaneous history virtues, vices, customs and
diversions, &c. of the inhabitants,

384
Dress,

409
Complexion,

410
Manners and character,

ib.
Fecundity, population, and longevity,

415
XI. Civil history, from the termination of the revolu.
tionary war in 1783 to the year 1808,

425
Biographical sketches of literary men and other

distinguished characters.
Lionel Chalmers, M. D.

451
Rev. Richard Clarke,

452
William Henry Drayton,

454
Christopher Gadsden,

457
Rev. Commissary Garden,

466
Alexander Garden, M. D.

469
Major John James,

472
Sir Nathaniel Johnson,

475
John Lining, M. D.

480
Henry Laurens,

481
John Laurens,

494
Gabriel Manigault,

501

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