of about a mile wide; the bank steep to the river forty-five feet perpendicularly high.  The streets are laid out regular.  There are near Savannah, in the same county, the villages of Hampstead, Highgate, Skidoway, and Thunderbolt; the latter of which is a translation of a name; their fables say that a thunderbolt fell, and a spring thereupon arose in that place, which still smells of the bolt.  This spring is impregnated with a mixture of sulphur and iron, and from the smell, probably, the story arose.  In the same county is Joseph’s town and the town Ebenezer; both upon the river Savannah; and the villages of Abercorn and Westbrook.  There are saw mills erecting on the river Ebenezer; and the fort Argyle, lies upon the pass of this county over the Ogechee.  In the southern divisions of the province lies the town of Frederica, with its district, where there is a court with three bailiffs and a recorder.  It lies on one side of the branches of the Alatamaha.  There is, also, the town of Darien, upon the same river, and several forts upon the proper passes, some of four bastions, some are only redoubts.  Besides which there are villages in different parts of Georgia.  At Savannah there is a public store house, built of large square timbers.  There is also a handsome court house, guard house, and work house.  The church is not yet begun; but materials are collecting, and it is designed to be a handsome edifice.  The private houses are generally sawed timber, framed, and covered with shingles.  Many of them are painted, and most have chimneys of brick.  At Frederica some of the houses are built of brick; the others in the Province are mostly wood.  They are not got into luxury yet in their furniture; having only what is plain and needful.  The winter being mild, there are yet but few houses with glass windows.

The Indians are a manly, well-shaped race.  The men tall, the women little.  They, as the ancient Grecians did, anoint with oil, and expose themselves to the sun, which occasions their skins to be brown of color.  The men paint themselves of various colors, red, blue, yellow, and black.  The men wear generally a girdle, with a piece of cloth drawn through their legs and turned over the girdle both before and behind, so as to hide their nakedness.  The women wear a kind of petticoat to the knees.  Both men and women in the winter wear mantles, something less than two yards square, which they wrap round their bodies, as the Romans did their toga, generally keeping their arms bare; they are sometimes of woolen, bought of the English; sometimes of furs, which they dress themselves.  They wear a kind of pumps, which they call moccasons, made of deer-skin, which they dress for that purpose.  They are a generous, good-natured people; very humane to strangers; patient of want and pain; slow to anger, and not easily provoked, but, when they are thoroughly incensed, they are implacable; very quick of apprehension and gay of temper.  Their public conferences show them to be men of genius,