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shaving now gained a vaft acquifition of waters, it 
aflfumes the name of Alatamaha, when it becomes 
a large majeftic river, flowing with gentle wind- 
ings through a vaft plain foreft, near an hundred 
miles, and enters the Atlantic by feveral mouths. 
The north channel, or entrance, glides by the 
heights of Darien, on the eaft bank, about ten miles 
above the bar, and running from thence with fe- 
veral turnings, enters the ocean between Sapello 
and Wolf iftands. The fouth channel, which is 
efteemed the largeft and deepeft, after its fepara- 
tion from the north, defcends gently, winding by 
M'lntofh’s and Broughton iflands ; and laftly, by 
the weft coaft of St. Simon's ifland, enters the 
ocean, through St. Simon's found, between the 
fouth end of the ifland of that name and the north 
end of Jekyl ifland. On the weft banks of the 
fouth channel, ten or twelve miles above its mouth, 
and nearly oppoftte Darien, are to be feen the re- 
mains of an ancient fort, or fortification ; it is now 
a regular tetragon terrace, about four feet high, 
with baftions at each angle ; the area may con- 
tain about an acre of ground, but the fofie which 
fur rounded it is nearly filled up. There are large 
Live Oak, Pines, and other trees, growing upon 
it, and in the old fields adjoining. It is fuppofed 
to have been the work of the French or Spaniards. 
A large fwamp lies betwixt it and the river, and a 
confiderable creek runs clofe by the works, and en- 
ters the river through the fwamp, a fmall diftance 
above Broughton ifland. About feventy or eighty 
miles above the confluence of the Oakmulge and 
Ocone, the trading path, from Augufta to the Creek 
nation, croftes thefe fine rivers, which are there 
forty miles apart. On the eaft banks of the Oak- 
mulge, this trading road runs nearly two miles 
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