Transcriber’s Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including some inconsistent hyphenation. Some changes have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. GEORGIA: ITS HISTORY, CONDITION, AND RESOURCES BY SAMUEL A. DRAKE _WITH MAP_ NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1879 COPYRIGHT, 1879, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS TROW’S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, _205-213 East Twelfth Street_, NEW YORK. GEORGIA. Georgia, one of the thirteen original States of the American Union, has Tennessee and North Carolina on the N., South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean on the E., Florida S., and Alabama W. The Savannah river separates the State on the E. from South Carolina; the St. Mary’s, on the S., divides it in part from Florida; the Chattahoochee, on the W., flows between Georgia and Alabama for nearly half its course. Georgia lies between 30° 21′ 39″ and 35° N. lat., and between 81° and 85° 53′ 38″ W. long. It is 320 miles long from N. to S., and 256 miles in its greatest breadth from E. to W., with an area of 58,000 square miles.