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which glided rapidly under my feet. I came to the 
carcafe of a calf which the people told me had 
fallen down from the edge of the precipice above, 
being invited too far by grafs and fweet herbs* 
which they fay frequently happens at this place. In 
early times* the Carolinians had a fort, and kept a 
good garrifon here as a frontier and Indian trading 
poll ; but Augufta fuperfeding it, this place was dif~ 
mantled: and fince that time, which probably can- 
not exceed thirty years, the river hath fo much en- 
croached upon the Carolina fhore, that its bed now 
lies where the fite of the fort then was : indeed 
fome told me that the oppofite Georgia fhore* 
where there is now a fine houfe and corn field* 
occupies the place. 
The fite of Augufta is perhaps the moft delight- 
ful and eligible of any in Georgia for a city. An ex- 
tenfive level plain on the banks of a fine navigable 
river, which has its numerous fources in the Chero- 
kee mountains, a fruitful and temperate region* 
whence, after roving and winding about thofe fertile 
heights, they meander through a fertile hilly 
country, and one after another combine in forming 
the Tugilo and Broad rivers, and then the famous 
Savanna river; thence they continue near an hundred 
miles more, following its meanders and falls over 
the cataracts at Augufta, which crofs the river at 
the upper end of the town. Thefe falls are four or 
five feet perpendicular height in the fummer feafon 
when the river is low. From thefe catara6ls up- 
wards, this river with all its tributaries, as Broad 
river* Little river, Tugilo, &c. is one continued 
rapid, with fome fhort intervals of ftill water, na- 
vigable for canoes. But from Augufta downwards to 
the ocean, a diftance of near three hundred miles 
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