[386] Published in the Daily Advertiser, Feb. 5, 1790, under the title "A Columbian Dialogue from the Charleston Gazette, supposed to have been written by Capt. Freneau." Text from the 1795 edition.
[387] "Columbia."—Ed. 1790.
[388] "Shivering with Hobaw winds."—Ib.
[389] "The State house."—Ib.
[390] "Charleston."—Ib.
THE DISTREST THEATRE[A][391]
[A] Harmony Hall, at Charleston, now demolished.—Freneau's note.
Health to the Muse!—and fill the glass,
Heaven grant her soon some better place,
Than earthen floor and fabric mean,
Where disappointment shades the scene: