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work in clearing the wood, and extending the plantation. The 
cotton crop was finished in most of the fields, and cattle were 
driven in, to consume the weeds and tops of the bushes. We 
passed several mill-ponds, and saw. some saw-mills. Only pine 
trees appeared to flourish in this part of the country; upon the 
whole, it was hilly, and the progress was tedious through the 
deep sand. We passed the river Savannah three miles from 
Augusta, in a little ferry-boat. The left bank appeared here 
and there to be rocky, and pretty high; the right is sandy. 
When we crossed the river, we left the state of South Carolina, 
and entered that of Georgia, the most southern of the old thirteen 
United States, which in fifty years have grown to twenty-four in 
number. We reached Augusta in the evening at nine o’clock, 
on a very good road, a scattered built town of four thousand six 
hundred inhabitants, of both complexions. We took up our 
quarters in the Globe Hotel, a tolerable inn; during the whole 
day it was very clear, but cold weather, in the evening it froze 
hard. The old remark is a very just one, that one suffers no 
where so much from cold as-in a warm climate, since the dwel¬ 
lings are well calculated to resist heat, but in nowise suited to 
repel cold. 
We were compelled to, remain in Augusta during the 22d of 
December, as the mail stage for the first time went to Mil ledge- 
ville on the following day, and Colonel Wool had to inspect the 
United States’ arsenal here, which contained about six thousand 
stand of arms for infantry. We understood that Mr. Crawford, 
formerly embassador of the United States, in Paris, afterwards 
secretary of state, and lastly, candidate for the office of president, 
was here at a friend’s house. We therefore paid him a visit. 
Mr. Crawford is a man of gigantic stature, and dignified appear¬ 
ance; he had a stroke of apoplexy about a year since, so that he 
was crippled on one side, and could not speak without difficulty. 
To my astonishment, he did not speak French, though he had 
been several years an envoy in Paris. They say, that Mr. Craw¬ 
ford’s predecessor in Paris, was chancellor Livingston, this gen¬ 
tleman was deaf; both Livingston and Crawford were introduced 
to the Emperor Napoleon at the same time; the emperor, who 
could carry on no conversation with either of them, expressed 
his surprise, that the United States had sent him a deaf and dumb 
embassy. I likewise reaped very little profit from Mr. Craw¬ 
ford’s conversation. As he was an old friend of Mr. Bowdoin, 
almost all the benefit of it fell to his share, and I addressed my¬ 
self chiefly to his daughter, and one of her female friends, who 
were present. Much indeed was to be anticipated as the result 
of a conversation with the daughter of such a statesman. She 
had been educated in a school of the southern states. My con- 
