There he was surrounded by hostile Indians and had difficulty establishing in September 1799 the mound at the junction of the Flint. He then left the party and went by sea around Florida to the St. Mary's, while Gillespie apparently worked overland to the sources of that river. There, as at the beginning of the Mississippi, Ellicott built a terminal mound. But at the Chattahoochee, 381 miles from the Father of Waters, ended Mississippi Territory. And there we must bid adieu to Ellicott and the south line alike of Mississippi and of Alabama. Spain retired below that line in 1798-9, and before 1820 the United States had acquired the territory south of it even to the Gulf. As a boundary between countries the parallel of 31° has become obsolete; but the Quaker's work in running out the old British line still remains important, for it separates much of Mississippi from Louisiana and much of Alabama from Florida. The stone on Mobile River is only a point of departure in surveying; but the mounds on the Mississippi, the Chattahoochee and St. Mary's bound civilized States instead of savage hunting grounds, as when they were made, and one at least still bears Ellicott's name. FOOTNOTES: [143] Colonial Mobile, pp. 185, 294; 7 Statutes at Large, p. 55. [144] 4, Am. Hist. Rev. p. 62, &c.; 7 Stat. at Large, p. 140. [145] Ellicott's Journal, pp. 40, 177. [146] But at least he did not turn cannon on Gayoso and compel him to evacuate, as stated (p. 45) in Jones' Introduction of Protestantism. [147] Ellicott's Journal, pp. 141, 282. [148] Winsor's Westward Movement, p. 266; Ellicott's Journal, App. p. 45. [149] Ellicott's Journal, App., p. 44, &c. [150] Colonial Mobile, p. 342; Ellicott's Journal, p. 182. [151] Picture in Colonial Mobile, p. 295, shows Ellicott to be inaccurate as to lettering. ELIZABETH FEMALE ACADEMY--THE MOTHER OF FEMALE COLLEGES BY BISHOP CHAS. B. GALLOWAY, D. D. I believe that Mississippi can justly lay claim to the honor of having established the first chartered institution for the higher education of young women in the South, if not in the United States. Though called an Academy, it did full collegiate work, had a high standard of scholarship, and conferred degrees. The institution was located at Washington, six miles east of Natchez. Washington had been the brilliant and busy little Territorial Capital, and was then the center of social and political influence.