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an input from the Sound, vith small streams flowing into it, and across the waters, 0;ean Springs.
The principal"crops" are ’'shrimp._and t.pjiris,t_s„,as they said when I lived in Thomasville, Ga., in 1889, "watermelons, La Conte pears and Yankees were the principal crops," and the last named the most r emuri'e f a tive.
The water of the town is unsurpassed, clear and copious, and comes from artesian,, wells, as does, I believe, all of the water for household use”*along the entire coast line.
Gen. Samuel Wragg Ferguson, an old and also a recent Charlestonian, lives on Beach avenue, some two miles from the "Manor,,l: and I visit him at least weekly.
JAMES G. HOLMES