SOUTH CAROLINA, one of the original thirteen Plate States of the American Union, commonly known as the Palmetto State, from the abundance of this kind of-palm on the coast, once formed a part of that vast territory of the New World claimed by the Spaniards under the name of Florida and by the French under that of New France ; or, to be more concise, it comprised the southern or lower portion of what was formerly styled Carolina, and subsequently divided into North and South Carolina. It lies