TRAVELS IN 
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for the garrifon, confiding of fifty ranges, including 
officers, each having a good horfe well equipt, a 
rifle, two dragoon pidols, and a hanger, befldes a 
powder horn, fhot pouch and tomahawk. The fort 
Hands on an eminence in the forks between the Sa- 
vanna and Broad rivers, about one mile above Fort 
Charlotta, which is lituated near the banks of the 
Savanna, on the Carolina fide. Fort James is fitu- 
ated nearly at an equal didance 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 didance of tv/o 
miles back from the fort, is laid out for a town, by 
the name of Dartmouth, in honour to the earl of 
Dartmouth, who, by his intered and influence in 
the Britifli 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 cefliont 
of a quantity of land diffident to difcharge their 
debts to the traders, for the fecurity and defence of 
which territory this fortreis was edablifhed. 
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 Ocone, 
and taking within its precindts all the waters of 
Broad and Little rivers j 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 burgeon 
of the garrifon, who was fo polite as to attend me 
to fhow me fome remarkable Indian monuments, 
which are w r orthy of every travellers notice. Thefe 
wonderful labours of the ancients dand in a* level 
3 ~ plain. 
