A SECOND VISIT 



THE UNITED STATES 



IN THE YEAKS 1845 6. 



CHAP. XX. 



Darien to Savannah. Black Baptist Church and Preacher. 

 Negro Prayer. Negro Intelligence. Bribery of Irish Voters. 

 Dirt-Eaters. Railway Expedition on Hand- Car. Geology 

 of Georgia. Negroes more progressive in Upper Country. 

 Indifference of Georgians to Winter Cold. Want of Elbow - 

 Room in Pine- Barrens. 



Jan. 9. 1846. WHEN I had finished my geological 

 examination of the southern and maritime part of 

 Georgia, near the mouth of the Alatamaha river, I 

 determined to return northward to Savannah, that I 

 might resume my survey at the point where I left 

 off in 1842*, and study the tertiary and cretaceous 

 strata between the Savannah and Alabama rivers. 



On our way back from Hopeton to Darien, Mr. 

 Couper and his son accompanied us in a canoe, and 



* See &quot; Travels in North America,&quot; vol. i. pp. 155 174. 

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