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Beaufort| Town in eastern North Carolina, 16 km/10 mi northwest of Cape Lookout, on a peninsula across from Morehead City; population (2000) 3,800. Established in 1722, it is a fishing and resort community. The North Carolina Maritime Museum is here. |
Beaufort| City and administrative headquarters of Beaufort County in southern South Carolina, 80 km/50 mi southwest of Charleston, on Port Royal Island, on the estuarial Beaufort River; population (2000) 12,950. Tourism is the main industry; it is also a commercial fishing and shellfishing port and a processing and distribution hub for locally produced vegetables and timber. |
| In an area explored by the Spanish in 1520, Beaufort was founded by the English in 1711. It has many noted 18th-century and pre-American Civil War structures, Fort Frederick (1732), and a National Cemetery (1863). A Marine Air Base lies to the north, and Parris Island to the south. |
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| My father loved Beaufort with the truest friendship and was deeply grieved by his retreat in these unfortunate circumstances.
I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own accommodations, that I volunteered my services, which received, through the kindness of the hydrographer, Captain Beaufort, the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty. On the next day Mathieu Mole, the chief president, whose courage at this crisis, says the Cardinal de Retz, was equal to that of the Duc de Beaufort and the Prince de Conde -- in other words, of the two men who were considered the bravest in France -- had been attacked in his turn. |