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of South Carolina with an advance of fifty thousand dollars. This 
town was commenced in the year 1821, and numbers about four 
hundred inhabitants, who are collectively maintained by the for¬ 
warding business. It consists of one single row of wooden houses, 
streaked with white, which appear very well upon the dark back 
ground, formed by the high forest close behind the houses. Near¬ 
ly every house contains a store, a single one, which comprised 
two* stores, was rented for one thousand dollars. Several new 
houses were building, and population and comfort appear fast in¬ 
creasing. The row of houses which form the town, runs parallel 
with the river, and is removed back from it about one hundred and 
fifty paces. Upon this space stands a large warehouse, and a little 
wooden hut, looking quite snug, upon the whole, with the super¬ 
scription “Bank.” A Hamburg bank in such a booth, was so 
tempting an object for me, that I could not refrain from gratify¬ 
ing my curiosity. I went in, and made acquaintance with Mr. 
Schulz, who was there. He appears to me to be a very public- 
spirited man, having been one of the most prominent undertakers 
of the landings and quay of Augusta. It is said, however, that 
he only accomplishes good objects for other people, and realizes 
nothing for himself. He has already several times possessed a 
respectable fortune, which he has always sunk again by too daring 
speculations. This Hamburg bank, moreover, has suspended its 
payments, and will not resume business till the first of next 
month. On this account, it was not possible for me to obtain its 
notes, which, for the curiosity of the thing, I would gladly have 
taken back with me to Germany. 
On the 23d December we left Augusta, about four o ? clock, by 
moonlight, and the weather pretty cold, in the miserable mail 
stage, which we had engaged for ourselves. It went for Mil- 
ledgeville, eighty-six miles distant from Augusta. The road was 
one of the most tedious that I had hitherto met with in the 
United States; hilly, nothing but sand, at times solitary pieces of 
rock, and eternal pine woods with very little foliage; none of the 
evergreen trees and the southern plants seen elsewhere, which, new 
as they were to my eye, had so pleasantly broke the monotony 
of the tiresome forests through which I had travelled from the 
beginning of December; even the houses were clap-board cabins. 
Every thing contributed to give me an unfavourable impression. 
The inhabitants of Georgia are regarded in the United States 
under the character of great barbarians, and this reputation 
appears really not unjustly conferred. We see unpleasant coun¬ 
tenances even in Italy: but here all the faces are haggard, and bear 
the stamp of the sickly climate. 
To the cold weather which we had for several days, warm tem¬ 
perature succeeded to-day. We were considerably annoyed by 
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