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knapsack, is an old blanket, some parched corn flour, and 

 leather to patch their moccasons. They have in their shot- 

 bags a charm, a protection against all ills, called the war 

 physic, composed of chit-to gab-by and Is-te-pau-pau, the bones 

 of the snake and lion. 



The tradition of this physic is, that in old times, the lion 

 (Is-te-pau-pau) devoured their people. They dug a pit and 

 caught him in it, just after he had killed one of their people. 

 They covered him with lightwood knots, burnt him, and re- 

 served his bones. 



The snake was in the water, the old people sung and he 

 showed himself. They sung again, and he showed himself a 

 little out of the water. The third time he showed his horns, 

 and they cut one ; again he showed himself a fourth time, and 

 they cut off the other horn. A piece of these horns and of 

 the bones of the lion, is the great war physic. 



SITUATION, BOUNDARIES, EXTENT. 



Georgia is situated between 30° 2\" 39' and 35° North 

 Latitude, and 81° and 84° 53'/ 38' West Longitude from Green- 

 wich, and 3° 46^' and 7° 39'' 2Q' West Longitude from Wash- 

 ington city. 



The original boundaries of the State embraced an extent 

 of territory thus described in the charter of the colony of 

 Georgia : — " Situate, lying, and being in that part of South 

 Carolina, in America, which lies from the most northern part 

 of a stream, or river, there commonly called the Savannah, all 

 along the sea-coast to the southward, to the southern stream 

 of a certain other great water, or river, called the Alatamaha, 

 and westwardly from the heads of the said rivers respectively, 

 in direct lines to the South Seas ; and all that share, circuit, 

 and precinct of lands within the said boundaries, with the Isl- 

 ands on the sea lying opposite to the eastern coast of the said 

 lands within 20 degrees of the same." These limits have un- 

 dergone many changes from cessions, made by Georgia to the 

 United States, and by treaties made with the Indians. At pre- 



