By this he designs to show, more emphatically, the immediate interposition, in his behalf, of an especial providence.

The truth is, that any attempt at details where so little is known to have been preserved, must necessarily, of itself, subject to doubt any narrative not fortified by the most conclusive evidence.

Unfortunately for the reverend historian, his known eccentricities as a writer, and fondness for hyperbole, must always deprive his books--though remarkably useful and interesting to the young--of any authority which might be claimed for them as histories.

As fictions from history, lively and romantic, they are certainly very astonishing performances; have amused and benefited thousands, and entitle the writer to a rank, in a peculiar walk of letters, which has not yet been assigned him .-- Francis Marion was one of these survivors.

The puny boy lived through the terrors and sufferings under which the strong men perished.