Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the South Carolina Cession: And the Northern Boundary of Tennessee
Read Before the Tennessee Historical Society, November 8, 1881. Here are some events of history which possess but little historic importance, but for this very reason are invested with peculiar historic interest. Such incidents, either from the brief period of their existence, or from their failure to produce any marked results upon the general interests of communities, are soon lost to view amid the great and pregnant events which stand out as the landmarks of a nation's his tory. When in after years these lesser facts are recalled to our notice by the researches of the historian or the antiquarian, they strike us with surprise, and possess all the charms of novelty. To this class belongs the history of the narrow strip of land touching the southern boundary of North Carolina and Tennessee, and extend ing from South Carolina to the Mississippi River. This strip is about 12 miles wide and more than 400 miles long, and was ceded by South Carolina to the United States on the 9th day of August, 1787. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
