. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . es were in possession, and one tall, melancholy,gray-haired mulatto, with all the dignity and deportment of the old school, lifted hishat, and said: Welcome, gentlemen, to Magnolia! On the border of a small lakewithin the grounds, shadowed by the moss-hung boughs of the oak, we lunched, andthen bade adieu to the place. A pathetic story is told of the ruined proprietor, whocomes oft
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . es were in possession, and one tall, melancholy,gray-haired mulatto, with all the dignity and deportment of the old school, lifted hishat, and said: Welcome, gentlemen, to Magnolia! On the border of a small lakewithin the grounds, shadowed by the moss-hung boughs of the oak, we lunched, andthen bade adieu to the place. A pathetic story is told of the ruined proprietor, whocomes often to his old favorite grounds, and wanders about them with profound melan-choly, or sits for hours with his face in his hands, brooding over his desolated home. CHARLESTON AND ITS SUBURBS. 209 The day after our visit to Ashley River we drove to a very old church on GooseCreek, near Cooper River, and about seventeen miles from Charleston. This church wasbuilt in 1711. It is situated in the very heart of a forest, is approached by a roadscarcely better than a bridle-path, and is entirely isolated from habitations of any deep ditch surrounds the building;, dug- as a means of protecting the graves within. St. Jamess Church, Goose Creek. it from wild animals. The church was saved from destruction by the Tories during theRevolutionary War on account of the British arms that are emblazoned on the walljust above the pulpit. The interior is very odd. Seventeen square pews fill up theground-floor, which, like all old English churches, is of stone. A gallery at one end hasthree or four rows of benches, and under this gallery are a few more benches designed 27 2IO PICTURESQUE AMERICA. for the negro servants. The altar, the reading-desk, and the pulpit, are so small, andcrowded in a space so narrow, that they seem almost miniatures of those church fix-tures. The monumental tablets on the side of the altar are very oddly ornamented inform, and, what is still more singular, are highl
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