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2 illegible gia, perhaps also to the illegible office in Washington, at illegible to a dead certainty to illegible humble
servant in the village of Bluffton illegible . Let that suffice for the present. it is a beautifully bound book in half calf,
with marbled paper, red mo illegible , well deserving the beautiful binding, the gilding on the lower side illegible for I
am reading it again with renewed relish for the sweet Georgia scenes , illegible alas the burning of Columbia, Shame upon
the illegible who was equal to lying about his work too . When I stopped in Charleston at my Brothers, I started early in
the morning 3 for my old Home, reached here in the afternoon not forgetting to stop at the swamp where the flrs of illegible
bloomed in June - but of course the bloom was all over, but the C illegible had appeared, but they were not rose tinted as
I have often seen them in the Autumn time, but they wore their usual rather illegible colour of green. I essayed to jump across
the ditch of mud, ooze, sand, as I am not as active as in the sweet days of my glorious youth - down I come in the ditch splash,
so stuck fast, had to call lustily to my black driver by? name Amos Jadsden? with whom I commenced life here years ago, he
pulled me out of my dilemma very nicely