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supported. The names of gentlemen might be inserted who 

 pay much attention to Hterature. 



Minerals. — Gold, granite, geodes, mica, quartz, &.c. 



Mineral Springs. — Two chalybeate springs in the vicinity 

 of the Cemetery, and one ten miles north of Macon, near the 

 Ocmulgee. 



Antiquities. — Abut nine miles from Macon, on the eastern 

 side of the Ocmulgee river, there is an isolated eminence, 

 known as Lamar's, usually called Brown's Mount, its base 

 covering an area of 300 acres ; and on its summit there is a 

 level area of perhaps fifty acres. Its size and conformation 

 distinguish it from the artificial mounds in the vicinity. It is 

 evidently the work of nature, and remarkable for being just 

 on the verge of the flat river bottoms, and presenting all the 

 rugged appearance of mountain precipices on its western front. 

 Upon its summit there is an old fortification, the stone walls 

 of which embrace a space of about thirty acres. The walls 

 of limestone are yet perfect, to the height of two and a half 

 feet ; and the fosse, on the outside, is yet knee-deep around 

 the whole enclosure. The walls were evidently built by a 

 civilized race acquainted with military science, as, at intervals 

 of sixty or eighty feet along the wall, there are buttresses and 

 salient angles, not differing materially from those in use at the 

 present day. Near the centre of the fortified area is an exca- 

 vation, floored with limestone, and the remains of an enclo- 

 sure of the same material around it. Its situation, size and 

 appearance, point it out as a reservoir to contain water for the 

 troops. The lands on the river, for several miles, are remark- 

 ably fertile, and were cultivated at the earliest period by the 

 Ocmulgee tribe of Indians, and were known as the Ocmulgee 

 Fields. The extent and fertility of these fields may have 

 tempted some race of discoverers to wrest them from the 

 natives ; and it may be that this fort was built to protect them 

 in their usurpation. These fields yet retain their character 

 for fertility, as they receive annually a deposit from the waters 

 of the Ocmulgee, when it overflows its banks, to the depth of 

 eighteen inches, or two feel. About three miles above Lamar's 

 Mount commences a chain of five artificial mounds. The two 

 first are on the plantation of John B. Lamar, Esq. The re- 



