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The Life of Francis Marion

CHAPTER 1
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S.C.Vol.

I., p.
4.

For a graphic detail of the usual difficulties and dangers attending the escape of the Huguenots from France, at the period of migration, see the first portion of this letter .-- We may safely conclude that there was no exaggeration in this picture.
The lot of all the refugees seems to have been very equally severe.
Men and women, old and young, strove together in the most menial and laborious occupations.

But, as courage and virtue usually go hand in hand with industry, the three are apt to triumph together.

Such was the history in the case of the Carolina Huguenots.


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