450 G E O R G I A. 
fome more. The value in flerling money of the ex¬ 
ports of Georgia, in the year 1755, was 15,744!.—in 
1772, 121,6771.—in 1791, value in dollars 491,472—in 
J 79 ^» 458,973—ill 1794, 50G383—in i 795 » 676,154; and 
in 1796, 950,158. In 1790, the tonnage employed in 
this ilate was 28,540, and the number of American fea- 
men 11,225. In return for her exports Georgia receives 
Welf-India goods, teas, wines, clothing, and dry goods 
of all kinds. From the northern dates, cheefe, filli, 
potatoes, apples, cider, and flioes. The imports and 
exports are principally to and from Savannah, which 
has a fine harbour, and is the place where the principal 
commercial bufinefs of the date is tranfafted. 
According to the cenfus of 1790, the number of in¬ 
habitants amounted to 82,548 j and the increafe has 
been very conliderable fince. The different religious 
fe6ts are Prefbyterians, Epifcopalians, Baptids, and Me- 
thodids. The literature of this date is conducted on a 
plan which will be very advantageous to the riling ge¬ 
neration. A college, with ample and liberal endow¬ 
ments, is indituted in Lonifville, a high and healthy 
part of the country, near the centre of the date. There 
is alfo provifion made for the inditution of an academy 
in each county of the date, fupported by the fame 
funds, and confidered as parts and members of the fame 
inditution, under the general fuperintendance and di- 
redtion of a preffdent and board of trudees, feledled for 
their literary accomplifhments from the different parts 
of the date, and inveded with the cudomary powers of 
corporations. This inditution is denominated The Uni~ 
verfity of Georgia. The funds for the fupport of literary 
inditutions are principally in lands, amounting in the 
whole to fifty thoufand acres, a great part of which is 
of the bed quality, and very valuable ; together with 
nearly fix tlioufand pounds derling in bonds, houfes, 
and town lots in Auguda. Other public property, to 
the amount of one thoufand pounds in each county, has 
been fet apart for the purpofes of building and furnifh- 
ing their relpective academies. The funds originally 
deligned to fupport the literary orphan-houfe, founded 
by the Rev. George Whitefield, are chiefly in rice-plan¬ 
tations and negroes. On the death of the coiintefs of 
Huntingdon, to whom Mr. Whitefield bequeathed this 
property, as trudee, the legiflature, in 1792, palled a 
law veding it in thirteen commiflioners, with powers to 
carry the original intention of Mr. Whitefield into exe¬ 
cution; and in compliment to the countefs, the femi- 
nary is dyled Huntingdon College.—This date was fird 
colonized in the year 1732, and wms the only colony 
fettled at the expence of the king of England. 
Georgia Western Territory. —Under this 
name is included all that part of the date of Georgia 
which lies wed of the headwaters of thole rivers which 
fall into the Atlantic Ocean. This extenlive tradf of 
country embraces fome of the fined land in the United 
States, is interfered with a great number of noble ri¬ 
vers, and is inhabited (except Inch parts wherein the 
Indian title has been extinguiflied) by three nations of 
Indians, viz. the Mulkogulge or Creek, the Cliac'taws, 
and Chickafavvs. The Clierokees alfb have a title to a 
fmall portion of the northern part of this territory, on 
the Tennelfee river. Thefe nations together can furnifh 
between eight and nine thoufand warriors. About two 
thoufand families of white people inhabit thofe parts 
of this territory where the Indian title has been extin- 
guilhed, chiefly at the Natchez ; and the Yazoo river, 
on the banks of the Milfiflippi, and a confiderable num¬ 
ber on the Tombigbee river, and fcattered among the 
Creek Indians. '1 Ids territory, lying between the thirty- 
fird and thirty-fifth degrees of north latitude, is not fiib- 
jedf to the extremes of heat or cold : the climate is tem¬ 
perate and delightful through the year; and except in 
low grounds, and in the neighbourhood of dagnant wa¬ 
ters, is very healthful. White frods, and Ibmetimes 
thin iccj have been feen us far foiuh as the ihirty-firlt 
degree of latitude; but fnow is very uncommon in any 
part of this territory. Mr. Hutchins, fpeaking of this 
trabl of country, in his Hidorical Narrative of Louifi- 
ana. See. fays, “ the clifnate is healthy and temperate, 
the country delightful and well watered, and the pro- 
fpefts beautiful and extenfive; variegated by many in¬ 
equalities and fine meadows, feparated by innumerable 
copfes, the trees of which are of different kinds, but 
modly of walnut and oak. The elevated, open, and 
airy, fituation of this country, renders it lefs liable to 
fevers and agues (the only diforders ever known in its 
neighbourhood) than fome other parts bordering on the 
Miflilfippi, where the want of a fufficient defeent to 
convey the waters off" occafions numbers of dagnant 
ponds, whofe exhalations infeit the air.” 
To give a jud view of the rivers, and to afeertain 
the advantages derived from them to this part of Geor¬ 
gia, it is necefl'ary to trace them from their mouths in 
the Gulf of Mexico. The Miffiflippi bounds this ter¬ 
ritory on the wed. The free navigation of this noble 
river is now fully enjoyed by the inhabitants of the 
United States. It empties, by feveral mouths of differ¬ 
ent depths from nine to fixteen feet, into the Gulf of 
Mexico, in about lat. 29. N. The bars af the mouth 
of tliis river frequently fhift ; after pafling them into 
the river, there is from tiiree to ten fathoms of water, 
as far as the fouth-wed pafs; and thence to the Mifi'ouri, 
a didance of 1,142 computed miles, twelve, fifteen, 
twenty, and thirty, fathoms, is the general depth. On 
both lides the Miffiflippi there are extenfive natural 
meadows, with a profpeiii: of the Gulf of Mexico on 
each fide, the didance of thirty-two miles, to a place 
called Detour-aux-Plaquemines, in Wed Florida. 
Thence twenty miles to the fetilements, the banks are 
low and marfliy, generally overflowed and covered with 
thick wood, palmetto buflies. See. apparently impena- 
trable by man or bead. Thence to Detour-des-Anglois, 
at the bend of the river, the banks are well inhabited; 
as alfo from hence to New Orleans, eighteen miles, 
which didance there is a good road for carriages. VelTels 
pafs from the mouth of this river to New Orleans, 105 
miles, in feven or eight days, commonly; fometimes in 
three or four. 
From New Orleans, the capital of Louifiana, there is 
an eafy communication with Wed Florida by Bayouk 
Ci'eek, which is a water of lake Ponchartrain, navigable 
for vefl'els drawing four feet water, fix miles up from 
the lake, to a landing-place two miles from New Or¬ 
leans. For nearly fifty miles up the river, both its 
banks are fettled and highly cultivated, in part by emi¬ 
grants from Germany, who furnilh the market with in¬ 
digo of a fuperior quality, cotton, rice, beans, myrtle, 
wax, and lumber. In 1762, fome rich planters attempted 
the cultivation of canes and the making ef fugar, and 
erefted mills for the purpofe. This I'ugar was of an 
excellent quality, and fome of the crops were large; 
but fome winters proving fo fevere as to kill the canes, 
no dependence can be placed in the culture of that article. 
The fettlements of the Acadians, which were begun 
in 1763, extend on both fides of the river, from the Ger¬ 
mans to the river Ibberville, which is ninety-nine miles 
above New Orleans, and two hundred and feventy from 
Penfacola, by way of lakes Ponchartrain and Maurepas. 
At Point Coupee, thirty-five miles above the Ibberville, 
are fettlements extending twenty miles on the wed fide 
of the river, which thirty years ago had two thoufand 
wffiite inhabitants, and feven thoufand Haves, who were 
employed in the cultivation of tobacco, indigo, Indian 
corn. Sec. for the New Orleans market, which they fur- 
nifliedalfo with poultry, and abundance of fquared tim~ 
ber, daves. Sec. 
Mr. Hutchins, from his perfonal knowledge, deferibes 
the country on both fides of the Miffiflippi, between 
the latitudes 30 and 31, bordering on Georgia, as fol¬ 
lows: “Although this country might produce all the 
valuable 
