[21] This old chest, which remained in one of the western vaults of the fort, up to the late war, was broken up for relics, and is no longer there.
[22] I do not find any account of this expedition and capture of St. Augustine in the Ensayo Cronologica.
[23] Carroll's S. C., Vol. 1, p. 62.
[24] Rivers' S. C. Hist. Coll. p. 143. Do. Appendix, 426. Carroll's Coll., 2d vol., 350.
[25] There must be an error, of course, in this statement of an 82-gun ship entering St. Augustine, as the depth of water would never admit a vessel of over 300 tons: probably 82 should read 12 tons. G. R. F.
[26] Carroll's Hist. Coll., vol. 2, p. 352.
[27] Rivers' Hist. Sketches, S. C., app. 458.
[28] State Papers of Georgia. Ga. Hist. Soc.
[29] This statement is unsupported by either Spanish or English authority. The writer of the letter, through want of familiarity with their language, misunderstood his informants, in all probability, as to the extent of their loss.
[30] MSS, in Geo. Hist. Soc. Library.