Upon the completion of the railway running from Macon to Columbus the resident merchants sought other and more convenient localities. Trade languished, was then wholly diverted, and the town speedily disappeared. Cotton fields now usurp the domain formerly occupied by the village. The traveler from the south as he crosses the Flint river, ascends a long rocky hill, and passes through a narrow lane on the top, discerns no traces of this dead town. The _Old Agency_,—once so important in the early days of this section,—exists only in tradition. _Francisville_, which was builded upon its ruins, has fallen into nothingness. Tall trees and a tangled undergrowth hide the graves of the dead, and there is little else save silence and forgetfulness. Even the earth-mound which covers the bones of the famous Colonel Benjamin Hawkins is incapable of positive recognition, and rests under the common oblivion which has overtaken all. VII. MISCELLANEOUS TOWNS, PLANTATIONS, &C. DeBrahm in his History of the Province of Georgia[268] furnishes us with the following classification of the Towns in the Province: “Besides the Metropolis of Savannah upon Savannah Stream, 17 miles from the Sea, Are 4 Sea Port Towns, Hardwick upon Great Ogetchee Stream Sunbury upon Midway Stream Darian } upon Alatamaha Stream Frederica } 4 Towns upon navigable fresh water streams Brandon(a) upon little River, is navigable only to the Cataract above Augusta, 200 miles from the Sea. Augusta upon Savannah Stream 150 miles from the Sea. Queensbury in the Fork of Lambert’s River and Great Ogetchee Stream, 120 miles from the Sea.(b) Ebenezer upon Savannah Stream 57 miles from the Sea. (a) Since Gov. Wright’s Administration this Place (being deserted in Gov’r Reynolds’ time by Edmond Grey) revived again under the name of Wrightsborough inhabited by above 60 Families, and its Township contains about 200 Families all Quakers; they are indulged by the Gov’r; that no Person, but such as they approve, shall be permitted to settle among them. (b) Queensbury is inhabited by about 70, and its Environs by above 200 Families mostly Irish, from which it is generally called the Irish Settlement. 4 Villages of which two are upon a navigable River, Acton } upon Vernon River Vernonburg } Hampstead } upon the Head of Vernon River.” Highgate } The enumeration contained in “Histoire et Commerce des Colonies Angloises dans l’Amerique Septentrionale,”[269] is essentially similar: “On partage la Georgie en doux divisions. La Septentrionale comprend; Savannah } Old-Ebenezer } New-Ebenezer } Villes. Hampstead. } Augusta } High-Gate. } Villages. Abercorn. } Skindwe }