Wesley Corpus

17. Five miles southwest of Savannah, on a small rise, stands the vulage of Highgate. It has pine land on three sides, and a swamp on the fourth. Twelve families were placed here in 1733 ; nine whereof remain there. A mile eastward of this is Hampstead, settled with twelve families also, a little before Highgate; five of which are still remaining. 18. Six miles southeast of Savannah is Thunderbolt. Three families are settled here, near a small, ruinous fort. Four miles south of this is the island of Skidoway : on the northeast point whereof ten families were placed in 1734; (a small fort was built here likewise ;) but nine of them are either dead, or removed to other places. A small creek divides Skidoway from Tybee Island, on the southeast part of which, fronting the inlet, the lighthouse is built. Ten families were settled here in 1734; but they are part dead, and part removed, so that the island is now again without any fixed inhabitant. 19. T'welve miles southward from Savannah (by land) is Mr. Houstoun’s plantation: and forty or fifty miles from him, up Ogeechy river, that where Mr. Sterling for some time lived. Fort Argyle stands twenty Dec. 1737.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. | 49 miles from this, on a high bluff, by the river Ogeechy. It is a small, square, wooden fort, musket-proof. Ten freeholders were settled near it; but eight of them are gone, and the land they had cleared lying waste, will, in a few years, be as it was before. 20. The southernmost settlement in Georgia is Fort St. Andrew. It stands fifty miles south of F'rederica, on the southwest side of Cumberland Island, upon a high neck of land, which commands the river both ways. The walls are of woud, filled up with earth, round which are a ditch and palisade. _ 21. It is hard to pick out any consistent account of the Georgian Indians, from the contradictory relations of their traders. The following is extracted, partly from those wherein all, or the generality of them, agree ; partly from the relations of such as have been occasionally amongst them, and have no interest in making them better or worse than they are. pene