Wesley Corpus

In the afternoon, the magistrates published an order, requiring all the officers and centinels to prevent my going out of the province ; and forbidding any person to assist me so todo. Being now only a prisoner at large, in a place where I knew by experience, every day would give fresh opportunity to procure evidence of words I never said, and actions I never did; I saw clearly the hour was come for leaving this place : and as soon as Evening prayers were over, about eight o’clock, the tide then serving, I shook off the dust of my feet, and left Georgia, after Journal I.--4 \ 46 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [ Dec. 1737. having preached the Gospel there (not as I ought, but as I was ab.e,) one year, and nearJv nine months. During this time ) nad frequent opportunities of making many obser vations and inquiries concerning the real state of this province, (which has been so variously represented,) the English settlements therein, and the Indians that have intercourse with them. These I minuted down from time to time ; a small extract of which I have subjoined. 1. Georgia lies in the 30th and 31st degree of north latitude. The air is generally clear, the rains being much shorter, as well as heavier, than in England. ‘The dews are very great. Thunder and lightning are expected almost every day in May, June, July, and August. Thev are very terrible, especially to a stranger. During those months, from ten in the morning to four in the afternoon, the sun is extremely scorching. But the sea breeze generally blows, from ten till three or four. The winter is nearly of the same length as in England. But the midday sun is always warm, even when the mornings and evenings are very sharp, and the nights piercing cold.