44 EARLY SETTLEMENT. 



Of this number 574 are computed to be engaged in mining, 

 209,383 in agriculture, 2,428 in commerce, 7,984 in manufac- 

 tures and trades, 262 in navigation of the seas, 352 in the na- 

 vigation of canals, lakes and rivers, 1,250 in the liberal pro- 

 fessions. 



Comparative view of the Population for fifty-five years. 



1790. 1800. 1810. 1820. 1830. 1840. 1845. 



82,548. 162,686. 252,433. 344,773. 516,823. 691,392. 774,325. 



EARLY SETTLEMENT. 



From " An Account showing the Progress of the Colony of Georgia, &c. ; printed 

 in London, by order of the Trustees, in the year MDCCXLL" 



" Mr. Oglethorpe has with him Sir Walter Rawleigh's writ- 

 ten Journal, and by the Latitude of the Place, the Marks and 

 Traditions of the Indians, it is the very first Place where he 

 first went on shore, and talked with the Indians, and was the 

 first Englishman they ever saw ; and about half a mile from 

 SavannaJi is a high Mount of Earth under which lies their 

 Chief King : And the Indians informed Mr. Oglethorpe that 

 their king desired before he died, that he might be Buried on 

 the Spot where he talked with that great good man." 



In 1717 the Palatine and Lords Proprietors of South Caro- 

 lina, granted unto Sir Robert Montgomery, " all that tract of 

 Land which lies between the rivers Alatamaha and Savannah," 

 under the title of the Margravite o{ Azilia. There is extant a 

 pamphlet in which the owner describes the country, and his 

 plan of settling it, &c. ; but it is presumed he did not carry 

 his plans into execution. 



In 1725 the Carolinians had built forts on the Alatamaha, 

 to prevent the negroes escaping to Florida, and to overawe the 

 Indians. The boundary between the Spanish and Carolinians 

 not yet defined. 



In July, 1732, the trustees for establishing a Colony in 



