Citation - South Carolina & Amer Genl Gazette: 1777.05.08

SCAGG.777.016
8 May 1777:11 (20/956)
From the St. James Chronicle
THE MIRACLE NEAR SULLIVAN'S ISLAND.
By the Red Sea the Hebrew host detain'd, 
Thro' aid divine the distant shore soon gain'd;
The waters fled, the deep a passage gave, 
But this God wrought, a chosen race to save---
Tho' Clinton's troops have shar'd a different fate, 
'Gainst them, poor men, not chosen sure by Heav'n;
The miracle revers'd, is still as great, 
From two feet deep, the water rose to seven!