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elusion was, the farther south I advanced, so much the firmer am 
I convinced that the inhabitants of these states suffer in comparing 
their education with those of the north. To conclude, Mr. Craw¬ 
ford was the hero of the democratic party, and would, in all pro¬ 
bability., have been chosen president in the spring of 1825, had 
not his apoplectic attack supervened. On account of his indis¬ 
position, General Jackson was pushed before him; and so much 
was brought forward against the individual character of this per¬ 
son in opposition, that the present incumbent, Adams, on that ac¬ 
count, succeeded. • 
The city of Augusta is very regularly built. The main.street 
is about one hundred feet wide, it contains many brick houses, 
and good-looking stores. None of the streets are paved, but all 
have brick foot-paths. A wooden bridge, three hundred and fifty 
yards long, and thirty feet wide, crosses from the neighbourhood 
of the city, to the left bank of Savannah river, the city lies on the 
right bank. Along the bank is erected a quay in the manner of 
a terrace, which is one of the most suitable that I have seen; for 
it is accommodated to the swell of the river, which often rises 
above twenty feet. It has three terraces. The lower one has a 
margin of beams, mostly of cypress timber, at which, in the pre¬ 
sent uncommon low stage of the water, the vessels are loaded. 
From the second terrace, (which as well as the upper one, has a 
brick facing,) are wooden landings reaching to the edge of the 
under terrace, by which, at higher stages, the vessels may land 
there. The upper terrace is paved with large stones, which are 
quarried above the city. The quay, as well as the landings, be¬ 
long to the State Bank of Georgia: the landings produce fifteen 
per cent, annually. 
Augusta is the depot for the cotton, which is conveyed from 
the upper part of Georgia by land carriage, and here shipped 
either to Savannah or Charleston. We noticed a couple of ves¬ 
sels of a peculiar structure, employed in this trade. They are 
flat underneath, and look like large ferry-boats. Each vessel can 
carry a load of three hundred tons. The bales of cotton, each of 
which weighs about three hundred pounds, were piled upon one 
another to the height of eleven feet. Steam-boats are provided 
to tow these vessels up and dovvm the stream, but on account of 
the present low state of the water, they cannot come up to Au¬ 
gusta. I was assured that year by year between fifteen and twenty I 
thousand bales of cotton were sent down the river. The state of i 
South Carolina, to which the left bank of the river belongs, was j 
formerly compelled to make Augusta its depot. To prevent this, 
Mr. Schulz, a man of enterprize, originally from Holstein, has 
founded a new town, called Hamburg, upon the left bank of the 
river, close by the bridge, supported, as is said, by the legislature 
