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Chief TOWNS....The principal towns in Georgia, are Savannah, 

 Augusta, Louisville, Sunbury, Milledgeville, Athens, Frederica, St. 

 Mary's, Darien, and Petersburg. Savannah, the commercial capital 

 of the state, is commodiously situate both for inland and foreign 

 trade, seventeen miles from the sea, on a nobie river of the same 

 name, which is navigable for boats upwards of 200 miles. Ships of 

 300 tons burden can lie within six yards of the town, and close to a 

 steep bank, extending near a mile along the river side. The town 

 is regularly built, in the form of a parallelogram, and contained, in 



1810, 5215 inhabitants. In the autumn of 1796 more than two thirds 

 -of this town was consumed by fire. 



Augusta, once the seat of government, is situate in a fertile plain 

 on the south-west bank of the Savannah river, at a bend of the river, 

 where it is nearly 500 yards broad. In 1S10, it contained about 2476 

 inhabitants. 



Louisville, till lately the metropolis of the state, is situate on the 

 river Ogeechee, seventy miles from its mouth. The convention for 

 the revisal of the constitution sat in this town in May 1795. It con- 

 tains 524 inhabitants, including slaves. 



Milledgeville, the present seat of government, is situated on the 

 river Oconee, 160 miles from Savannah, and 80 west from Augusta. 

 The state house is a fine building. The number of inhabitants is 

 1246. 



Trade. ...The chief articles of export from Georgia are cotton, rice, 

 tobacco, indigo, sago, timber, naval stores, leather, deerskins, snake- 

 root, myrtle, and bees' wax, corn, and live stock. The planters and 

 farmers raise large stocks of cattle, from 1000 to 1500 head, and 

 some more. The value in sterling money of the exports of Georgia, 

 in 1755, was 15,741/. in 1772, 121,677/. in 1791, value in dollars 

 491,472; in 1796, 950,158 dollars, in 1802, 1,854,951 dollars, and in 



1811, 2,568,866 dollars. In 1790, the tonnage employed in this 

 state was 28,540, and the number of American seamen 11,225. In 

 return for her exports, Georgia receives West India goods, teas, 

 wines, clothing, and dry goods of all kinds : from the northern states, 

 cheese, fish, potatoes, cyder, and shoes. The imports and exports 

 are principally to and from Savannah, which has a fine harbour, and 

 is the place where the principal commercial business of the state is 

 transacted. 



' Government. ...The government of Georgia is much like that of 

 South Carolina; the principal difference is that the governor and 

 council have a qualified negative on the laws, and the legislature is 

 elected annually. 



Religion. ...The different religious sects in Georgia are presbyte- 

 rians, episcopalians, baptists, and methodists. They have but few 

 regular ministers among them. In fact religion is at a low ebb, al- 

 though its propagation was a leading motive with the generous foun- 

 ders of the colony. 



Colleges and academies. ...The literature of this state, which is 

 yet in its infancy, is commencing on a plan, which, if properly carri- 

 ed into effect, must be attended with great advantages. A college 

 with ample and liberal endowments has been instituted at Louisville. 

 There is also provision made for the institution of an academy in 

 each county of the state, to be supported from the same funds, and 

 considered as parts and members of the same institution, under the 

 general superintendance and direction of a president and board of 



