South Carolina - Description and travel

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The new Pilgrim's progress or the pious Indian convert. Containing a faithful account of Hattain Gelashmin, a Heathen, who was baptis'd into the Christian Faith by the Name of George James, and by that means brought from the Darkness of Paganism, to the Light of the Gospel, of which he afterwards became an able and worthy Minister. Together with a Narrative of his laborious and dangerous Travels among the Savage Indians for their Conversion; his many Sufferings and miraculous Deliverances, and the wonderful Things which he saw in a Vision. Publish'd for the Instruction of Mankind in general, but more particularly for the Impenitent and Unreformed. By James Walcot, A.M.
Walcot, JamesDate: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]
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A new description of that fertile and pleasant province of Carolina with a brief account of its discovery and settling, and the government thereof to this time / by John Archdale.
Archdale, John, 1642?-1717.Date: 1822
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Profitable advice for rich and poor : in a dialogue, or discourse between James Freeman, a Carolina planter, and Simon Question, a west-country farmer : containing a description or true relation of South Carolina, an English plantation, or colony, in America : with propositions for the advantageous settlement of people in general, but especially the laborious poor, in that fruitful, pleasant, and profitable country, for its inhabitants.
Norris, JohnDate: 1712
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A new and accurate account of the provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia : with many curious and useful observations on the trade, navigation, and plantations of Great-Britain, compared with her most powerful maritime neighbours in antient and modern times.
Oglethorpe, James, 1696-1785.Date: 1732
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A new voyage to Carolina containing the exact description and natural history of that country: Together with the Present State thereof. And a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians. Giving a particular Account of their Customs, Manners, &c. By John Lawson, Gent. Surveyor-General of North-Carolina.
Lawson, John, d. 1712.Date: Printed in the Year 1709