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their bedding, and other little necessaries ; and all the people 

 lay on shore. The ground they encamped upon is the edge of 

 the river where the Key is intended to be. 



Until the 7th was spent in making a Crane, and unlading 

 the goods : — which done, Mr. Oglethorpe divided the people ; 

 employing part in clearing the land for seed ; part in beginning 

 the palisade ; and the remainder in felling of trees where the 

 Town is to stand. 



Col. Bull arrived here, with a message from the General 

 Assembly to Mr. Oglethorpe, and a letter from his Excellency 

 Governor Johnson and the Council ; acquainting him that the 

 two Houses, upon a conference, had agreed to give twenty 

 barrels Rice and a hundred head of Cattle, besides Hogs, to the 

 Trustees ; and that they had commanded a detachment of the 

 Rangers (which are Horse, kept in the pay of the Province, 

 for the scouring of the frontiers) and the Scout-boat (which is 

 an armed Bark, employed for the same purpose by water) to 

 attend him, and take his orders. 



Col. Bull brought with him four of his Negroes, who were 

 Sawyers, to assist the Colony ; and also brought provision for 

 them, being resolved to put the Trust to no expense ; and by 

 this means, to bestow his benefaction in the most noble and 

 useful manner. 



On the 9th day, Mr. Oglethorpe and Col. Bull marked out 

 the Square, the Streets, and forty Lots for houses of the town ; 

 and the first House (which was ordered to be made of clap- 

 boards) was begun that day. 



The Town lies on the south side of the river Savannah, 

 upon a Flat on the top of a hill, and sixty yards of it is reserved 

 between it and the Key. The river washes the foot of the 

 hill ; which stretches along the side of it about a mile, and 

 forms a terrace forty feet perpendicular above high water. 



From the Key, looking eastward, you may discover the 

 river as far as the islands in the sea ; and westward, one may 

 see.it wind through the woods above six miles. The River is 

 one thousand feet wide ; the water fresh, and deep enough for 

 sloops of seventy tons to come up close to the side of the Key. 



