vent its growth. Those who have water in referve, commonly let it in upon their rice after firft going through with the hoe, while it is yet young, though it is deemed beft to keep out the grafs without this aid, by the hoe only. The water is commonly kept on the rice eight or ten days after hoeing. When the ear is formed, the water is continued on till it is ripe. It is hoed three or four times. When the grafs is very thick, a negro cannot hoe more than one fixteenth of an acre in a day. From three pecks to a bufhel is fown on an acre. It produces from 50 to 80 bushels of rough rice an acre -120 buthels of rough rice have been produced on one acre; 20 bushels of which make about 500 pounds, or eight and a quarter bufhels clean rice for market. Afterit is threfhed, it is winnowed, and then ground in a mill, constructed of two blocks, in a fimple manner-then winnowed by a fan conftructed for that purpose-then beat in a mortar by hand, or now generally by horfe or water machines-then fifted, to feparate the whole rice from that which is broken, and the flour, The whole rice is then barrelled in cafks of about 500 pounds, or. eight and a quarter bufhels. The fmall rice ferves for provifions, and the flour for provender; the chaff før. manure, and the ftraw for fodder. The blade is green and fresh while the ear is ripe. The price is from to 10/6 a hundred-dollars 4/8.

Conflitution.] The legislative authority is vested in a. general afferably, confifting of a fenate and houfe of reprefentatives. There are 124 reprefentatives, and 35 fenators appointed among the feveral districts. The gene. eral affembly is chofen on the fecond Monday of October, and meets on the fourth Monday in November an-nually. Each houfe chooses its own officers, judges of. the qualifications of its members, and has a negative on. the other. The executive authority is vested in a gov ernor, chofen for two years, by both houfes of affembly: jointly; but he cannot be re-elected till after four years.. A lieutenant governor is chofen in the fame manner, for the fame time, and holds the office of governor in cafe of vacancy.

This contitation was ratified June 3, 1999.

State:

State of Literature.] Gentlemen of fortune, beforethe late war, fent their fons to Europe for education. During the war and fince, they have generally fent: them to the middle and northern States. There are feveral refpectable academies in Charleston, one at Beaufort, on Port Royal ifland, and several others in different parts of the State. Three colleges have lately been incorporated by law; one at Charlefton, one at Winnsborough, in the district of Camden, the other at Cambridge, in the district of Ninety Six. The public and private donations for the fupport of thefe three colleges, were originally intended to have been appropri ated jointly, for the erecting and fupporting of one refpectable college. The divifion of thefe donations has fruftrated this defign. The Mount Sion college at Winnf borough, is fupported by a respectable fociety of gentlemen, who have long been incorporated. This inftitution. flourishes, and bids fair for ufefulness. The college at. Cambridge is no more than a grammar fchool.

The legislature have made provifion lately for eftablihing a univerfity at Columbia.

Charitable and other Societies.] These are the South Carolina, Mount Sion, Library, and St. Cecilia focieties. -a fociety for the relief of the widows and orphans of clergymen-a Medical fociety lately inftituted in Charlef ton, and a Musical fociety. At Beaufort and an St. Helena, are feveral charitable focieties, incorporated with. funds to a confiderable amount, defigned principally for the education of poor children, and which promife, at a future day, to be of great public utility.

Indians.] The Catabaws are the only nation of Indians in this state. They have but one town, called Catabaw, fituated on Catabaw river, in latitude 34° 49′,. on the boundary line between North and South Caroli na, and contains about 450 inhabitants, of which about 150 are fighting men.

Religion. Since the revolution, by which all denorainations were put on an equal footing, there have been no difputes between different religious fects. They all agree to differ.

The

Boundaries.] B Ocean; fouth, by East and Weft

OUNDED eaft, by the Atlantic

Florida; weft, by the river Miffippi; north and northeaft, by South Carolina, and Tenneffee, or by lands ceded to the United States by South Carolina. Thefe boundaries embrace the " M ffifippi Territory," which fee.

Ciel Divifions and Population.] That part of the State which has been laid out, is divided into two dif tricts, Upper and Lower, which are fubdivided into the following 24 counties, viz.