GEORGIA 



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GEORGIAN BAY 



Macon Savannah 



Rome Waycross 



EDUCATION 



Georgia, University of 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Corn Nut 



Cotton Peach 



Lumber Peanut 



Marble Sugar Cane 



Melon Turpentine 



RIVERS 



Chattahoochee Savannah 



SURFACE FEATURES 



Appalachian Mountains Piedmont Region 

 Blue Ridge Stone Mountain 



GEORGIA, a region celebrated for the beauty 

 of its women and the strength of its men, 

 containing the Russian provinces of Armenia, 

 Caucasus and part of Asia Minor, lying be- 

 tween the Black and Caspian seas. This terri- 

 tory was surrendered to Russia by its king, 

 George XIII, in 1798. The first authentic his- 

 tory of Georgia traces back to Alexander 

 the Great. At the close of the second dentury 

 the crown was given to the king of Armenia. 

 The Arab invasions began a century later, and 

 for two hundred years the inhabitants of 

 Georgia were compelled to accept the Moham- 

 medan religion at the point of the sword. Po- 

 litical relations between Russia and Georgia 

 began in 1492 when the king sought protection 

 of Ivan III of Russia during a war between 

 the Persians and Turks. Early in the eight- 

 eenth century assistance was asked of Peter 

 the Great, and in 1829, Guria, the last state 

 of Georgia, submitted to Russia. Wine, cot- 

 ton and fruit are produced in this region. 



GEORGIA, UNIVERSITY OF, the oldest state 

 university, in the United States, located at 

 Athens, Ga. It was chartered in 1785, but was 

 not formally opened until 1801. According to 

 the provisions of its charter, the primary and 

 secondary schools of the state have an official 

 connection with the university; it is also at 

 the head of the public school system. 



The institution includes the following col- 

 leges and departments: at Athens, Franklin 

 College of Liberal Arts, the state agricultural 

 college, the graduate school, the law depart- 

 ment and the state normal school; also, the 

 North Georgia agricultural college, at Dahlo- 

 nega; the medical college, at Augusta; the 

 school of technology, at Atlanta; the normal 

 and industrial school for girls, at Milledgeville ; 

 the South Georgia state normal college, at 

 Valdosta; and the Industrial College for Col- 

 ored Youths, at Savannah. 



The total enrollment of students in all de- 

 partments is about 650, and there are about 



seventy members on the faculty. The uni- 

 versity library contains 45,000 volumes. Ex- 

 cept in the professional schools, tuition is free 

 to residents of the state. 



GEORGIAN, jor'jian, BAY, formerly called 

 LAKE MANITOULIN, an arm of Lake Huron, 

 lying wholly in the province of Ontario. It 

 extends eastward from Lake Huron, from 

 which it is almost completely shut off by 

 Manitoulin and other islands and by the 

 Bruce Peninsula. Between Manitoulin Island 

 and the mainland on the north is the North 

 Channel, a picturesque little strait, with rocky 

 bluffs along the shore. The eastern shores of 

 the bay are low and rocky, but on the north 

 they are high and bold, like the north shore 

 of Lake Superior. The most striking feature of 

 the bay is the vast number of small islands, 

 said to exceed 20,000, which dot its waters. 

 The attractiveness of these islands for summer 

 homes and hotels is drawing a rapidly increas- 

 ing number of temporary residents, with the 

 result that Georgian Bay is perhaps best known 

 as a summer resort. 



Georgian Bay is about 120 miles long and 

 fifty miles wide, and in many places exceeds 

 300 feet in depth. Numerous rivers empty 

 into it, chief among them being the French, 

 from Lake Nipissing; the Muskoka, from the 

 chain of lakes of that name, and the Severn, 

 from Lake Simcoe. The Trent Canal, though 

 now only of local_use, will provide a through 

 water route from Georgian Bay to the Bay of 

 Quinte on Lake Ontario, and the Georgian Bay 

 Ship Canal will provide a through route to 

 Montreal. 



Georgian Bay Ship Canal. A ship canal to 

 connect Montreal directly with Lake Huron 

 has long been under consideration. In 1904 a 



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GEORGIAN BAY SHIP CANAL 

 Showing, also, its rail and water connections, If 

 proposed plans are followed. 



board of engineers was appointed by authority 

 of the Dominion Parliament to investigate, 

 from an engineering point of view, the practi- 

 cability of the proposed waterway. The 



