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having now gained a vail acquifition of waters, iti 
a (lurries 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 mouthso 
The north channel, or entrance, glides by the 
heights or 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 iflands. The fouth channel, v T hich is 
eftcemed the largeft and deeped:,, after its fepara- 
tion from the north, defcends gently, winding by 
IVFIntofh's and Broughton iflands; and laftly, by 
the well 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 opposite 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 fofle 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 
considerable creek runs clofe by the works, and en- 
ters the river through the fwamp, a (mail cliftance 
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, croffes 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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