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Egmont edate are feveral very large Indian tu- 
muli, 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 con- 
ftantly haraffed by the Carolinians and Creeks, and 
at length (lain by their conquerors, and their bones 
entombed in thefe heaps of earth and fliells. I ob- 
ferved here the ravages of the common grey cater- 
pillar (Phalena periodica), fo definitive to foreft 
and fruit trees, in Pennfylvania, and through the 
northern dates, by dripping them of their leaves, in 
the fp ring, while young and tender. 
Mr. Egan having bufmefs of importance to tranf- 
a6t in St. Augudine, preffed me to continue with 
him a few days, when he would accompany me to 
that place, and, if I chofe, I fhould have a paffage, 
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 fubjedl worthy of fome inquiry, why 
thofe fine idands, on the coad of Georgia, are fo 
thinly inhabited ; though perhaps Amelia may in 
fome degree plead an exemption, as it is a very fer- 
tile ifland, on the north border of Ead Florida, and 
at the Capes of St. Mary, the fined harbour in this 
sew colony. If I fhould give my opinion, the fol- 
lowing feem to be the mod probable reafons : the 
greated part of thefe are as yet the property of a 
few wealthy planters, who having their refidence 
on the continent, where lands on the large rivers, 
as Savanna, Ogeeche, Alatamaha, St. I lie, and others, 
are of a nature and quality adapted to the growth 
of rice, which the planters chiefly rely upon for 
obtaining ready cadi, and purchadng family arti- 
cles; they fettle a few poor families on their in- 
fular 
