When peace returned the culture was revived in a struggling way; but its vexations and vicissitudes made it promptly give place to sea-island cotton.[12] [Footnote 11: Johann David Schoepf, _Travels in the Confederation, 1783-1784_, A.J.Morrison tr.

(Philadelphia, 1911), pp.

187-189.] [Footnote 12: David Ramsay, _History of South Carolina_, II, 212; D.D.
Wallace, _Life of Henry Laurens_, p.

132.] The plantation of the rice-coast type had clearly shown its tendency to spread into all the suitable areas from Winyah Bay to St.John's River, when its southward progress was halted for a time by the erection of the peculiar province of Georgia.

The launching of this colony was the beginning of modern philanthropy.