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TRAVELS IN 
Egmont eftate are feveral very large Indian tumuli ? 
which are called Ogeeche mounts, fo named from 
that nation of Indians, who took fhelter here, after 
being driven from their native fettlements on the 
main near Ogeeche river. Here they were' com* 
flantly harrafled by the Carolinians and Creeks, and 
at length {lain by their conquerors, and their bones 
entombed in thefe heaps of earth and {heirs. I ob~ 
ferved here the ravages of the common grey cater- 
pillar (Phalena periodica), fo deftru&ive to foreft 
and fruit trees, in Pennfylvania, and through the 
northern dates, by (tripping them of their leaves, in 
the fpring, while young and tender. 
Mr. Egan having bufinefs of importance to tranf- 
act in St. Auguftine, prefled me to continue with 
him a few days, when he would accompany me to 
that place, and, if I chofe, I mould have a pafiage, 
as far as the Cow-ford, on St. John's, where he would 
procure me a boat to profecute my voyage. 
It may be a fubjecl worthy of fome inquiry, why 
thofe fine iflands, on the coaft of Georgia, are fo 
thinly inhabited ; though perhaps Amelia may in 
fome degree plead an exemption, as it is a very fer- 
tile illand, on the north border of Eaft Florida, and 
at the Capes of St. Mary, the fined harbour in this 
new colony. If I mould give my opinion, the fol- 
lowing feem to be the mod probable reafons : the 
greater! part of thefe are as yet the property of a 
few wealthy planters, who having their reiidence 
on the continent, where lands on the large rivers, 
as Savanna, Ogeeche, Alatamaha, St. Ille, and others, 
are of a nature and quality adapted to the growth 
of rice, which the planters chiefly rely upon for 
obtaining ready cam, and purchafing family arti- 
cles ; they fettle a few poor families crx their in- 
