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TRAVELS IN 
for the garrifon, confitling of fifty ranges, including 
officers, each having a good horfe well equipt, a 
rifle, two dragoon piftols, and a hanger, befides a 
powder horn, (hot pouch and tomahawk. The fort 
ftands on an eminence in the forks between the Sa- 
vanna and Broad rivers, about one mile above Fort 
Charlotta, which is fituated near the banks of the 
Savanna, on the Carolina fide. Fort James is fitu- 
ated nearly at an equal diftance from the banks of 
the two rivers, and from the extreme point of the 
land that feparates them. The point or peninfula 
between the two rivers, for the diftance of two miles 
back from the fort, is laid out for a town, by the 
name of Dartmouth, in honour to the earl of Dart- 
mouth, who, by his intereft and influence in the 
Britifh councils, obtained from the king a grant and 
powers in favour of the Indian trading company of 
Georgia, to treat with the Creeks for the ceflion of a 
quantity of land fufficien't to difcharge their debts to 
the traders, for the fecurity and defence of which 
territory this fortrefs was eftablifhed. 
This territory, called the New Purchafe, con- 
tains about two millions of acres, lying upon the 
head of great Ogechee, between the banks of the 
Savanna and Alatamaha, touching on the Occone, 
and taking within its precincls all the waters of 
Broad and Little rivers ; comprehending a body of 
excellent and fertile land, well watered by innume- 
rable rivers, creeks and brooks. 
I made a little excurfion up the Savanna river, 
four or five miles above the fort, with the furgeon 
of the garrifon, who was fo polite as to attend me 
to Chow me fome remarkable Indian monuments, 
which are worthy of every traveller's notice. Thefe 
wonderful labours of the ancients ftand in a level 
plain. 
