{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3017", "width": "2155", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "look\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "2840", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "y^", "height": "2840", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA:\\nITS HISTORY, CONDITION,\\nAND RESOURCES\\nSAMUEL AX^ DRAKE\\nWITH MAP\\nNEW YORK\\nCHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS\\n1879", "height": "2840", "width": "1989", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "^t^^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^1^\\nCopyright, 1879, by\\nCHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS\\nf.\\nTrow s\\nPrinting and Bookbinding Company,\\n205-213 East Twelfth Street,\\nNew York.", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA.\\nGeorgia, one of the thirteen original States\\nof the American Union, has Tennessee and\\nNorth CaroHna on the N., South Carohna and\\nthe Atlantic Ocean on the E., Florida S., and\\nAlabama W. The Savannah river separates\\nthe State on the E. from South Carolina; the\\nSt. Mary s, on the S., divides it in part from\\nFlorida; the Chattahoochee, on the W., flows\\nbetween Georgia and Alabama for nearly half\\nits course. Georgia lies between 30\u00c2\u00b0 21 39\\nand 35\u00c2\u00b0 N. lat., and between 81\u00c2\u00b0 and 85\u00c2\u00b0 53^\\n38^ W- long. It is 320 miles long from N. ta\\nS., and 256 miles in its greatest breadth from\\nE. to W. with an area of 58,000 square miles.\\nSurface. Georgia has three distinctly marked\\nzones, varying in soil, climate, and productions.\\nHer sea-coast is similar to that of the Carolinas,\\nbeing skirted by fertile islands, separated from", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "4 GEORGIA.\\nthe mainland by narrow lagoons or by sounds.\\nThis section is essentially tropical. Beginning\\nat the sea-coast, a gradually ascending sandy\\nplain extends northward and westward as far\\nas the head of navigation on the Savannah,\\nOgeechee, Oconee, and Ocmulgee rivers, where\\nit meets a Primary formation. Augusta, Mil-\\nledgeville, and Macon indicate the northern\\nlimit of this tract. Here begins the hilly and\\nfinally mountainous region, the most extensive,\\nfertile, and salubrious of the State. A second\\nplateau, 60 or 70 miles broad, stretches above\\nthe falls of the rivers until it meets the southern-\\nmost ranges of the great Appalachian chain of\\nmountains which traverses Virginia, North\\nCarolina, and northern Georgia under the name\\nof the Blue Ridge, and is finally lost in Alabama.\\nThis picturesque district extends in Georgia\\nfrom Rabun county in the north-east corner of\\nthe State to Dade in the extreme north-west,\\nwhere the summit of Lookout Mountain domi-\\nnates the valley of the Tennessee. Here are\\nthe sources of the two principal rivers of the\\nState here is the gold-producing region and\\nhere is also the theatre of some of the most san-\\nguinary battles of the civil war. The elevations", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 5\\nof the Blue Ridge vary from 1,200 to 4,000\\nfeet. In the south-east of the State is the ex-\\ntensive Okefinokee swamp, which has an esti-\\nmated circumference of 180 miles, is filled with\\npools and islands, and is the congenial home of\\nalligators, lizards, and other reptiles.\\nRivers and Harbors. There are many fine-\\nrivers in Georgia. A north and south line pass-\\ning through Macon would nearly divide the\\nstreams flowing into the Atlantic from those\\ndischarging into the Gulf of Mexico. The Sa-\\nvannah, Ogeechee, Altamaha, Santilla, and St.\\nMary s fall into the Atlantic, and the Chatta-\\nhoochee, Flint, and tributaries of the Suwanee\\nflow to the Gulf coast. The rivers are generally\\nnavigable for steamboats to the falls which oc-\\ncur on the great central plateau of the State\\nthat is to say, the Savannah to Augusta, the\\nOconee and Ocmulgee (confluents of the Alta-\\nmaha) to Milledgeville and Macon, and the\\nChattahoochee to Columbus. Besides their or-\\ndinary purposes as avenues of travel and com-\\nmerce, her rivers have given to Georgia the\\ncharacter of a manufacturing State, and she is\\ndeveloping and increasing their abundant water-\\npowers with energy and success.", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6 GEORGIA.\\nThe Savannah is formed of two small streams which\\nrise near the North Carolina line, and unite on the boun-\\ndary between S. Carolina and Georgia in Hart county.\\nFlowing thence in a nearly S.S.E. direction for 450 miles,\\nit enters the Atlantic near 32* N. lat. The Savannah is\\nnavigable from November to June. Ships ascend it 18\\nmiles to the city of Savannah, steamboats to Augusta,\\n230 miles, and by means of a canal around the falls there,\\nconstructed in 1845, light draught vessels navigate it 150\\nmiles higher. This canal, 9 miles long, furnishes the\\n-water-power of Augusta. The river is here about 300\\nyards wide. From Augusta the traveller descends the\\nSavannah through the cotton-fields of the table-lands,\\nand the long reaches of semi-tropical vegetation domi-\\nnated by groves of live oak, to the rich rice plantations\\nof the seaboard.\\nThe Chattahoochee is one of the largest and most in-\\nteresting rivers of Georgia. It rises on the declivity of\\nthe Blue Ridge, in Habersham county, in the N.E. of\\nthe State, pursues a devious S.W, course through the\\ngold region of upper Georgia until it reaches West\\nPoint, on the Alabama frontier. It then flows nearly\\nsouth to the Florida State line, where it is joined by the\\nFlint, when the two streams flow on through Florida to\\nthe Gulf under the name of the Appalachicola. Large\\nsteamboats ascend the Chattahoochee in the season of\\nnavigation to Columbus, 350 miles from the Gulf. The\\nwhole estimated length of the river is 550 miles. The\\nfalls at Columbus create a valuable water-power, con-\\nstituting that city one of the three important manufactur-\\ning centres of the State. Just above Columbus the\\nChattahoochee is broken in picturesque rapids, over-\\nlooked by a rocky cliff called the Lover s Leap, which\\nis the subject of an interesting legend. Besides Colum-\\nbus, the towns of West Point and Fort Gaines are the\\nmost important on the Chattahoochee in Georgia Ap-\\npalachicola at its embouchure on the Gulf is its shipping", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. f\\nand distributing port, but is decreasing in importance\\nsince the railway system of the State has assumed a large\\nshare of the traffic once confined to the navigable\\nstreams.\\nThe Oconee and Ocmulgee rise near each other, in\\nthe N. of the State, flow through its centre to within loo\\nmiles of the sea, when their united streams pass on S.\\nE. to the Atlantic under the name of the Altamaha.\\nMilledgeville, the former capital of Georgia, is on the\\nOconee, and Macon on the Ocmulgee. Darien on the\\nAltamaha is reached by vessels drawing 1 1 to 14 feet of\\nwater. The Ogeechee, rising also in the north, is about\\n200 miles long. It drains the country between the Savan-\\nnah and Altamaha, entering the Atlantic a few miles south\\nof the Savannah. The Ogeechee is navigable for light\\nvessels 30 or 40 miles, and for keel-boats to Louisville.\\nThe Santilla and St. Mary s drain the south-eastern\\ncounties, and are each navigable 30 or 40 miles for\\nsloops. The Flint, Ockloconee, and Suwanee drain the\\nsouth-western counties the Flint is navigable to Albany,\\n250 miles from the Gulf, for steamboats. The Talla--\\npoosa and Coosa, head-waters of the Alabama, and the\\nHiawassee, one of the sources of the Tennessee, rise in\\nthe mountains of Georgia the last, however, finding its\\nway to the Gulf of Mexico by the Ohio and Mississippi\\nvalleys.\\nGeorgia has about 128 miles of sea-coast, but\\nhas few good harbors, except within the rivers\\nemptying upon it. St. Mary s, Brunswick,\\nDarien, and Savannah are the principal. The\\nchain of islands lying off the mainland produces\\nthe celebrated Sea-island cotton, but owing to\\nthe changes brought about by the secession war", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "g GEORGIA.\\nit is now little cultivated. These islands are\\nflat, and generally little elevated above the sea.\\nCumberland island, one of the most attractive,\\nis nearly 30 miles long. It is covered with\\nmagnificent forests of oak, and its shores are\\nskirted with palms, palmettos, and tropical\\nshrubbery. Other islands from S. to N. are\\nJykill, St. Simon s, Sapello, St. Catharine s, Os-\\nsabaw, and Cabbage. The Sea Islands, with\\nthe main shore, constitute a coast of 480 miles.\\nSt. Andrew s, St. Simon s, Altamaha, Doboy,\\nSapello, St. Catharine s, and Ossabaw are the\\nprincipal sounds.\\nClimate^ Soil, and Productions. The central\\nand southern portions of Georgia, including the\\nseaboard, are subject to excessive heats in sum-\\nmer. At Savannah, observations show the mean\\ntemperature for July to have sometimes reached\\n99\u00c2\u00b0 Fahr. In the northern district of the State\\nthe same season is cooler and less enervating.\\nIndeed, the mountain region is becoming noted\\nfor its genial and healthful climate, and is at-\\ntracting invalids and pleasure-seekers from all\\nparts of the Union. In the low marshy lands\\nlying contiguous to or upon the coast, malarious\\nfevers prevail in spring and summer. The belt", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 9\\nof country stretching from Augusta across the\\nState to Columbus, having a width of from 30\\nto 60 miles, is pronounced a very healthy dis-\\ntrict. At Augusta the mean summer tempera-\\nture is about 79\u00c2\u00b0, the winter 47\u00c2\u00b0. At Atlanta\\ncareful observations give the average of summer\\nheat as 75\u00c2\u00b0, and winter 45\u00c2\u00b0. Diseases of the re-\\nspiratory organs are rare among natives of\\nnorthern and central Georgia. The interior is\\ncomparatively free from the dreaded epidemics\\ncholera and yellow fever, but Savannah and the\\ncoast are periodically scourged by them.\\nThere is in Georgia as great diversity of soil\\nas of climate. Beginning with the Sea Islands,\\nwhich are composed of a sandy alluvium, inter-\\nmixed with decomposed coral, we pass from\\nthe rich alluvions near the coast, in which the\\ngreat rice plantations are, to the thinner soil of\\nthe Pine Belt, sometimes inaptly denominated\\nPine Barrens. These are at present valuable,\\nfor their timber and naval stores, but are sus-\\nceptible of cultivation. The middle region con-\\nsists of a red loam, once productive, but from\\nlong cultivation impoverished. With the aid of\\nfertilizers it produces cotton, tobacco, and the\\ncereals. We now reach the so-called Cherokee", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 GEORGIA.\\ncountry of the north, containing lands among\\nthe most fertile in the State, lands which, not-\\nwithstanding their tillage from an unknown\\nperiod by the aboriginal inhabitants, grow\\nwheat, corn, Irish potatoes, peas, beans, etc.,\\nabundantly. Cotton may also be successfully\\ncultivated, but with less advantage than in\\nother districts of the State. This fibre is chiefly\\nproduced along the fertile bottom lands or con-\\ntiguous uplands of the rivers. The same lands\\nyield rice, Indian corn, and sugar. Middle and\\nsouthwest Georgia are the most productive\\ncotton areas. In the south-west the soil, though\\nlight and sandy, produces cotton. In southern\\nGeorgia there are millions of acres of magnifi-\\ncent yellow pine forests of great value for house\\nor ship-building, and in these forests turpentine\\nplantations have been opened. The live-oak,\\nalso valuable for ship-building purposes, abounds\\nin the south-east of the State. The swamps\\nafford cedar and cypress, the central region oak\\nand hickory. Walnut, chestnut, ash, gum,\\nmagnolia, poplar, sycamore, beech, elm, maple,\\nfir, and spruce trees are found in different local-\\nities but in the older settled districts the origi-\\nnal forests have disappeared.", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. I r\\nIt is frequently said that tliere is nothing\\ngrown in any of the States except Florida that\\nGeorgia cannot profitably produce. A few of\\nthe tropical fruits of Florida cannot be raised in\\nGeorgia, but all those of the temperate zone\\nsucceed well. Tobacco may be grown in any\\npart of the State, although it is not extensively\\ncultivated for export. Cotton is the great\\ncrop of Georgia. She ranks third among the\\neight cotton States, having exported or con-\\nsumed in her own manufactures, for the year\\nending September, 1878, 604,676 bales, worth\\nat the point of export $30,000,000. Of this\\ncrop 3,608 bales is classed as Sea-island.\\nHer crop for 1877 was 491,800 bales. The\\ncounties of Burke, Dougherty, Lee, Monroe,\\nStewart, Sumter, and Washington yield 25 per-\\ncent, of the whole product of the State.\\nThe emancipation of the slaves in the South-\\nern States has naturally produced great and im-\\nportant changes in the labor system of that sec-\\ntion. The planter must now purchase the la-\\nbor he formerly owned. The black is free to\\ndispose of his labor to the best advantage. The\\ncontracts for labor are of three kinds, for mon-\\ney wages by the month or year, for a share of", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 GEORGIA.\\nthe crop, or for specific rent in money or prod-\\nucts. The first has been practised to a limited\\nextent by the best and most prosperous plant-\\ners. The share system has been the one gen-\\nerally adopted, because the blacks greatly af-\\nfected quasi-proprietorship of the soil, and be-\\ncause the owners were inexperienced in the\\nmanagement of free labor, and not inclined to\\ncome personally in contact with it. The share\\nvaries in different localities, but usually one-\\nthird to half the crop goes to the laborers, the\\nlandlords furnishing the necessary tools. The\\nreadjustment of labor in the South is watched\\nwith the keenest interest in other sections of the\\nUnion as one of the difficult problems growing\\nout of the suddenly changed relation between\\nwhite and black and though some traces of his\\noriginal servitude remain a cause of irritation\\nbetween Northjand South, the agreement be-\\ntween the enfranchised black and his late master\\nis likely to be harmonious, where each is so de-\\npendent on the other as is the case in the cot-\\nton-growing States of the Union.\\nStatistics. A carefully tabulated statement shows\\nthat, in addition to her cotton crop, Georgia produced,\\nin 1876, 23,629,000 bushels of Indian corn, valued at", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 13\\n$14,172,000; 2,840,000 bushels of wheat, worth $3,805,-\\n600; 5,700,000 bushels of oats, worth $3,876,000; and\\n23,600 tons of hay, worth $347,628. To these principal\\ncrops should be added the timber and naval stores ex-\\nported from Atlantic outports. In January, 1877, there\\nwere in Georgia 118,300 horses, 404,900 oxen and other\\ncattle, 96,200 mules, 270,400 milch cows, 378,600 sheep,\\nand 1,483,100 swine, having a total valuation of $30,815,-\\n117. The State is admirably adapted for stock-raising,\\nbut, as cotton culture oifers the quickest returns, it has\\nhitherto engrossed the attention of planters and farmers.\\nThe grain and root crops are largely cultivated for the\\nsupport of the agricultural population.\\nThe rice crop of Georgia in 1870 was 22,277,380 fl)\\ntobacco, 288,596 R) molasses, 553,192 gals.; wine, 21,927\\ngals.; sugar, 644 hhds sweet potatoes, 2,621,562 bush.\\nIrish potatoes, 197,101 iDush.; butter, 4,499,572 R); honey,\\n610,877 R wool, 846,947 R), increased in 1878 to about\\n1,000,000 lb. The latest official census shows that 6,831,\\n856 acres, valued at $94,559,468, are improved in farms\\nvalue of farm implements and machinery, $4,614,701\\nestimated value of all farm products, $80,390,228 esti-\\nmated value of manufactured products, $31,196,115.\\nThe total valuation of the State in 1870 was $268,169,-\\n207, against $645,895,237, in i860. The decrease is\\nowing to the emancipation of the slaves but the State\\nis steadily gaining ground in increased acreage culti-\\nvated, increased number and value of manufactories,\\nand increased productive capacity everywhere.\\nMineral Products. Georgia was perhaps the El Dorado\\nof which the Spaniards who invaded Florida were in\\nsearch. Before the gold discovery in California, the\\nplacers of Northern Georgia were profitably worked\\nfor many years but since 1852 their produce has almost\\nwholly ceased. The gold-bearing region is comprised in\\nthe counties of Lumpkin, Habersham, Forsyth, and Hall,\\nthe precious metal being found in the alluvial deposits", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 GEORGIA.\\nof the streams, and also intermixed with the quartz rock\\nof the hills. A branch mint was established by the Gov-\\nernment at Dahlonega, the shire town of Lumpkin coun-\\nty. In 1853 it coined gold bullion of nearly half a mil-\\nlion dollars value but, as in California, the placers, or\\nsurface deposits, have become exhausted. Besides this\\nprecious metal, Georgia contains, mainly in N. E. or\\nCherokee Georgia, coal and fossiliferous iron ore distrib-\\nuted along the ridges between the Tennessee and Ala-\\nbama border. The Cohutta mountains contain copper^\\nand also silver and lead ores. Iron ore, manganese,\\nslate, baryta, and brown haematite are found on the\\nwestern declivity of this range. Between the Cohutta\\nmountains and the Blue Ridge is a vein of marble, and\\nadjacent to it are the gold-bearing schists, which reap-\\npear on the south side of the Blue Ridge. Other miner-\\nals are granite, gypsum, limestone, sienite, marl, burr-\\nstone, soapstone, asbestos, shales, tripoli, fluor-spar, ka-\\nolin, porcelain clay, arragonite, tourmaline, emerald,\\ncarnelian, ruby, opal, calcedony, agate, amethyst, jas-\\nper, garnets, schorl, zircon, rose-quartz, beryl, and even\\ndiamonds.\\nPopulation. The latest official census of Georgia\\n(1870) gives a population of 1,184,709 souls, 638,926 be-\\ning white and 545,142, or nearly one-half, black. This\\npopulation is distributed among 136 counties, which in-\\nclude 8 cities and 134 incorporated towns. Georgia,\\nwhich ranks tenth in area, is the twelfth of the Union in\\nrespect to population. Though showing an increase of\\n127,423 persons in the previous decade, which embraced\\nthe period of the war with the North, she has fallen be-\\nhind one in her rank but indications of prosperity in her\\nagricultural and manufacturing interests warrant the be-\\nlief that Georgia will show a marked gain in 1880. A\\nlarge proportion of this anticipated increase may be con-\\nfidently assigned to the northern section of the State,\\nthough the middle section is at present most thickly set-\\ntled.", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. IS\\nCounties. There are 136 counties in the State, viz.\\nAppling, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Bartow, Berrien, Bibb,\\nBrooks, Bryan, Bullock, Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Camp-\\nbell, Camden, Carroll, Cass, Catoosa, Charlton, Chatham,\\nChattahoochee, Chattooga, Clarke, Cherokee, Clay, Clay-\\nton, Clinch, Cobb, Coffee, Colquitt, Columbia, Cowetta,\\nCrawford, Dade, Dawson, Decatur, De Kalb, Dodge,\\nDooly, Dougherty, Douglas, Early, Echols, Effingham,\\nElbert, Emmanuel, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth,\\nFranklin, Fulton, Gilmer, Glasscock, Glynn, Gordon,\\nGreene, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Haral-\\nson, Harris, Hart, Heard, Henry, HoAiston, Irwin, Jack-\\nson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Laurens, Lee,\\nLiberty, Lincoln, Lowndes, Lumpkin, Macon, Madison,\\nMarion, M Duffie, M Intosh, Meriwether, Miller, Milton,\\nMitchell, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Murray, Mus-\\ncogee, Newton, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Pickens, Pierce,\\nPike, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Quitman, Rabun, Ran-\\ndolph, Richmond, Rockdale, Schley, Scriven, Spalding,\\nStewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taliafero, Tatnall, Taylor, Tel-\\nfair, Terrell, Thomas, Towns, Troup, Twiggs, Union,\\nUpson, Walker, Walton, Ware, Warren^ Washingt;on,\\nWayne, Webster, White, Whitfield, Wilcox, Wilkes,\\nWilkinson, and Worth.\\nCities and Towns. Georgia has no large cities. Sa-\\nvannah, the chief seaport, has a population of about 30,-\\n000; Atlanta, the capital, 35,000; Augusta, 23,768;\\nMacon, 10,810; Columbus, 7,401 Athens, 4,251 Mil-\\nledgeville, 2,750; and Rome, 2,748. The important\\ntowns are Albany, Americus, Bainbridge, Brunswick,\\nCartersville, Covington, Cuthbert, Dalton, Dawson, Ea-\\ntonton, Fort Valley, Griffin, La Grange, Marietta, New-\\nnan, Thomasville, Valdosta, Washington, and West\\nPoint. Columbus, Americus, Atlanta, and Rome, as\\nwell as Savannah, are considerable shipping points, for\\ncotton Athens is the seat of the University of Georgia\\nAugusta and Columbus are manufacturing centres Ma-", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "l6 .GEORGIA.\\ncon has three religious colleges Darien, Brunswick,\\nand St. Mary s manufacture and export lumber. Ander-\\nsonville, in Sumter county, acquired terrible celebrity\\nduring the civil war as the site of the chief military pris-\\non of the Southern Confederacy. Atlanta is by far the\\nbest example of rapid growth the State affords. From a\\npopulation of 21,189 exhibited by the census of 1870, the\\ncity advanced to 35,000 in 1876. It is a railway and\\nmanufacturing centre. In the vicinity and for its pos-\\nsession were conducted some of the most important mili-\\ntary operations of the secession war.\\nManufactures. Georgia is the foremost Southern\\nState in her railway and manufacturing enterprises.\\nBoth have been chiefly developed since the war, from\\nwhich everything in the south of the Union dates. Her\\nrivers and railways afford abundant facilities for the move-\\nment of merchandise as well as crops. Her streams also\\nprovide excellent and unfailing water-power. In the de-\\nvelopment of her industries a great future is predicted\\nfor Georgia. Indeed some of the more sanguine claim\\nthat she is already becoming a formidable rival of New\\nEngland in the manufacture of cotton and woollen\\nfabrics.\\nThere are in the State 38 cotton factories, with 123,233\\nspindles and 2,125 looms. There are 14 woollen facto-\\nries, with 4,200 spindles and 135 looms. Augusta and\\nColumbus take the lead in the number and capacity of\\nthese works, for which certain important adv^antages are\\nclaimed. The water-power is so ample that the mills\\nare run by it alone. The streams do not freeze in win-\\nter. The cotton and wool are grown at the factory door,\\nsaving to the mill-owner the cost of transporting his\\nraw material from a great distance. Labor is cheaper.\\nFinally, the State, in order to encourage the investment\\nof foreign capital in manufactures, has by law exempted\\nsuch capital from taxation for ten years. The product\\nof the Georgia mills finds a ready market in the South-", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 17\\nern and Western States. It is asserted on good author-\\nity that during the years 1875, 1876, and i877~years of\\nunparalleled depression to the manufacturing interests\\nof the United States the mills of Georgia, especially\\nthose of Augusta and Columbus, were never idle, and\\npaid a handsome return on their invested capital. Be-\\nsides the 52 factories which convert so large a share of\\nher raw product into cloths, there are 1,375 grain mills,\\nhaving 1,453 of stones for corn and 556 for wheat.\\nThere are 734 saw-mills, 77 wagon and carriage factories,\\n6 iron furnaces, 7 iron foundries, 11 lime-kilns, 4 potter-\\nies, 68 tanneries, 6 turpentine distilleries, 2 rolling mills,\\n5 paper-mills, 12 furniture manufactories, 3 rice-mills,\\nc. The manufacture of rope, bagging, twine, tobacco,\\nice, sashes and blinds, agricultural implements, boilers\\nand machinery, fertilizers, c., is carried on more or\\nless extensively. Besides Augusta and Columbus, the\\nlargest manufacturing city of the State, there are cotton\\nfactories at Athens, Macon, West Point, Decatur, and\\nAtlanta. The latter city also has large iron works.\\nThomasville, Dalton, Albany, Marietta, and Rome are\\nalso manufacturing points.\\nCommerce. Large vessels can enter only four harbors,\\nviz., Savannah, Darien, Brunswick, and St. Mary s. The\\ninlets or sounds which divide the coast islands from each\\nother or from the mainland are generally only navigable\\nfor small craft. At mean low tides the bar of the Sa-\\nvannah (Tybee entrance) has 19, the Altamaha 14, that\\nof St. Simon s sound (entrance to Brunswick) 17, and\\nthat of St. Mary s river 14 feet of water. Savannah,\\nBrunswick, and St. Mary s are ports of entry. Cotton\\nand lumber are the principal exports. Of the former\\n610,419 bales of Upland, and 11,309 of Sea-island were\\nexported during the year ending September 2, 1878.\\nThe shipment of wool for the same time was 988,389 R).\\nThese figures should not be taken to represent the crop\\nof the State. The ship-timber, boards, deals, clapboards,", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 8 GEORGIA.\\nc., are chiefly shipped from the other ports. About\\nloo vessels, of 22,000 tons burden, are employed in the\\nforeign and coastwise trade. For the year ending De-\\ncember ;^i, 1878, the total tonnage of the port of Savan-\\nnah was entered, 280,995 tons foreign and 385,532\\ncoastwise cleared, 223,885 foreign and 418,958 coast-\\nwise value of imports $505,596, and of exports $24,-\\n014,535. I^ the district of Brunswick and Darien the\\nentries were 124,711 and the clearances 32,579 tons\\nvalue of exports $1,030,943. The St. Mary s entries\\nwere 16,052 tons foreign and 20,065 coastwise value of\\nexports $120,186, and of imports $1,421.\\nRailways. Atlanta, Columbus, Macon, Albany, and\\nAugusta are railway centres. In i860 there were in\\nGeorgia 1,404 miles of completed railway; in 1878 there\\nwere 2,340 miles. The Atlantic and Gulf Railway crosses\\nthe State from Savannah to Bainbridge, in the extreme\\nsouth-west, on the Flint river. It is 236 miles long,\\npassing through Blackshear, Valdosta, and Thomasville\\n(from which there is a branch line to Albany 58 miles\\nand Macon), while from Dupont there is a junction with\\nthe Florida lines. The Brunswick and Albany also ex-\\ntends from the coast at Brunswick to Albany, 172 miles,\\nwhence it is to be continued in a westerly direction to\\nthe Chattahoochee, in Early county. A third line con-\\nnects Brunswick with Macon (187 miles) and another,\\nthe Central Georgia, unites Savannah with Macon and\\nAtlanta (294 miles). The Central Georgia works a\\nbranch-line from Millen to Augusta the Milledgeville\\nand Eatonton from Gordon to Eatonton (22 miles) the\\nSouth-Western from Macon to Eufaula, Ala. (144 miles),\\nwith branches from Fort Valley to Columbus (72 miles),\\nSmithville to Albany (23! miles), Cuthbert to Fort\\nGaines (20 miles), Fort Valley to Perry (13 miles), and\\nAlbany to Arlington (36 miles) the Macon and West-\\nern from Macon to Atlanta and the Upson County line\\nfrom Barnes ville to Thomaston (16 miles).", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 19\\nAtlanta is situated on the great iron highways from\\nBoston, New York, and Philadelphia to Mobile and New\\nOrleans, and from Chicago to Florida. The Western\\nand Atlantic connects Atlanta and the Georgia system\\nwith the Tennessee lines at Chattanooga (138 miles).\\nSeveral great battles were fought for the possession of\\nthis railway during the secession war. The Atlanta and\\nCharlotte Air Line extends to Charlotte, N. C. (269\\nmiles). The Georgia railway connects Atlanta with\\nAugusta (171 miles), with lateral lines from Carnak to\\nWarrenton (4 miles), Union Point to Athens (40 miles),\\nand Barnet to Washington (18 miles) it also works the\\nMacon and Augusta line from Carnak to Augusta (70\\nmiles). The Atlanta and West Point (80 miles) unites\\nthose places. The Alabama and Chattanooga crosses\\nthe N. W. corner of the State. The Cherokee extends\\nfrom Cartersville on the Western and Atlantic to Rock-\\nmart (23 miles). The Columbus and Atlanta, projected\\nbetween Columbus and Rome, the Memphis branch\\n(Rome to Decatur, Ala.), and Savannah, Griffin, and N.\\nAlabama, from Griffin to Newman, to be extended to\\nGuntersville, Ala., are in progress. The Georgia South-\\nern extends from Dalton to the Ala. State line (portion of\\nSelma, Rome, and Dalton road) North-Eastern from\\nAthens to Lulah (39 miles) Ocmulgee and Horse Creek\\n(7 miles) Rome Railroad, Rome to Kingston (20 miles).\\nGovernment. The executive power is vested in a\\ngovernor elected for four years by a majority of the peo-\\nple. If there is no election by the people, the general\\nassembly chooses one of the two receiving the highest\\nnumber of votes. The legislative authority is conferred\\nupon a senate, members of which are elected for four\\nyears, and a house of representatives elected for two\\nyears. The legislature holds annual sessions, beginning\\non the second Wednesday of January. The State judi-\\nciary consists of a supreme court of three judges, who\\nhold office for twelve years, one retiring every four", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 GEORGIA.\\nyears, and of inferior courts, presided over by nineteen\\njudges, appointed by the executive with the consent of\\nthe senate. Except in probate cases, these courts have\\noriginal jurisdiction, civil and criminal, in law and\\nequity. County courts are established in most of the\\ncounties. There is an ordinary for each county elected\\nfor four years, who holds a court of ordinary and pro-\\nbate. The organic law of the State now forbids slavery\\nor involuntary servitude except for the punishment of\\ncrime. Imprisonment for debt, and legislation affecting\\nthe free exercise of that personal liberty guaranteed to\\nthe citizen by the amendments to the Constitution of the\\nUnited States, are also prohibited. All male inhabitants\\nbetween eighteen and forty-five are subject to military\\nduty. There is a homestead exemption of $2,000 on\\nreal, and $1,000 on personal property, except for taxes,\\nfor money borrowed or expended on the homestead, or\\nfor labor or materials used upon it. The property held\\nby a married woman at the time of marriage, or subse-\\nquently inherited or acquired by her, is not liable for\\nthe husband s debts. A married woman may also sue\\nand be sued in matters pertaining to her separate estate,\\nand may carry on trade as if single. Georgia is entitled\\nto seven representatives and two senators in Congress.\\nEducation. Previous tc the war, there was no com-\\nmon school system in Georgia. Although a plan of pub-\\nlic instruction was organized at an earlier date, it was\\nnot given effect to until 1873. In that year the schools\\nwere put in working condition, and are now to be found\\nin every county of the State. The attendance in 1876\\nwas whites 121,418, colored 57,987, showing a small but\\nsteady increase for the three years the schools had been\\nin operation. It is computed by the school commission\\nat 200,000 for 1879. The higher branches of education\\nare well represented. As early as 1801 steps for found-\\ning a university were taken at Athens. The first com-\\nmencement took place in 1804. The college proper", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 21\\n(Franklin College at Athens) annually admits free of\\ncharge fifty meritorious young men of limited means,\\nand also such as may be studying for the ministry who\\nneed aid. There is also connected with the university a\\nmedical college, located at Augusta, and an agricultural\\ncollege at Dahlonega, with nearly 250 students, whose\\ntuition is free. The State college of agriculture and me-\\nchanic arts, also connected with the university, has a\\nspecial endowment derived from the United States of\\n$240,000 the whole endowment of the university is\\n$376,500. The university, exclusive of its establishments\\nat Augusta and Dahlonega, has five departments, 13 pro-\\nfessors, and 200 students, with a library of 14,000 vol-\\numes, and two literary societies. Besides the usual col-\\nlegiate course, there are a preparatory school and a law\\nschool. Mercer College, at Macon, is a Baptist institu-\\ntion. It was founded in 1838 and until 1870 it was lo-\\ncated at Penfield, in Greene county. It has an endow-\\nment of $160,000, a library of 12,000 volumes, and about\\n135 students. Besides the regular academic course,\\nthere are schools of law and theology. The high schools\\nat Penfield and Dalton are connected with this college.\\nEmory College at Oxford, Newton county, was chartered\\nin 1836. It is the property of the Georgia and Florida\\nconferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South).\\nThe present number of students is 1 56. Emory has a\\nvaluable college apparatus and a good working library,\\nbut lacks an endowment. The Wesleyan Female Col-\\nlege at Macon was one of the first female colleges, if not\\nthe first, in the world, its charter having been granted in\\n1836. It has 200 students, and is the property of the\\nMethodist denomination. Since 1840 degrees have been\\nconferred upon 1,080 graduates. The Southern Masonic\\nFemale College at Covington belongs to the Grand\\nLodge of Georgia, and is designed to educate female\\norphans of Freemasons. Pio Nono College at Macon is\\na recently established Catholic institution, chiefly found-", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 GEORGIA.\\ned by the efforts of the bishop of Savannah. The At-\\nlanta University for the education of negroes was estab-\\nlished by the now extinct Freedmen s Bureau and various\\ncharitable societies of the Northern States. It receives\\nan annual appropriation from the Georgia legislature of\\n$8,000. It accommodates 240 pupils. There are a num-\\nber of institutions, in addition to those enumerated, that\\nare entitled colleges, but come more properly within the\\ndesignation of high schools. There are also institutions\\nfor the blind (at Macon), and for the deaf and dumb\\n(near Rome).\\nObjects of Interest. Perhaps the most beau-\\ntiful scenery in Georgia is to be found in the\\nmountain region traversed by the Air Line rail-\\nway. About 2^ miles from the town of Toccoa\\nthe creek of that name falls 185 feet over a pre-\\ncipice. Fifteen miles beyond Toccoa are the\\ncascades of Tallulah, where the river descends\\nsuccessive terraces of broken rock between the\\nwalls of a chasm 800 feet deep. In this vicinity\\nare the charming valleys of Nacoochee and\\nMount Yonah. In the extreme north-east is\\nRabun gap and the cascades of Eastatoia. Con-\\nnected with this region, once the hunting-\\ngrounds of the warlike Cherokees, are many\\nIndian legends. The country between Atlanta\\nand Chattanooga is deeply interesting from hav-\\ning been the battle-ground of opposing armies", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 23\\nin the civil war. Kenesaw mountain, itself the\\nscene of a bloody encounter, commands a view\\nof the country which for two months the Con-\\nfederate commanders disputed foot by foot.\\nStone mountain, 9 miles from Decatur, is much\\nvisited. The Chattahoochee, in the neighbor-\\nhood of Columbus, is picturesque and Savan-\\nnah is one of the most attractive and idiosyn-\\ncratic cities of the Union. There are numerous\\nmineral springs scattered over the State, which\\nare much resorted to by invalids.\\nHistory. Before the arrival of Europeans the\\ncounty now embraced in Georgia was inhabited\\nby the Cherokee and Creek Indians. The\\nCherokees possessed the north, the Creeks the\\nsouth. Both were very powerful and warlike,\\nthe Cherokees numbering 6,000 warriors, and\\nhaving 64 towns and villages. To be more pre-\\ncise, the Cherokee country extended from the\\n34th parallel north to the country of the Six Na-\\ntions, and from the heads of the rivers emptying\\nU^on the South Carolina coast westward to the\\nMississippi. The whole course of the Tennessee\\nwas within this magnificent domain, now mostly\\nembraced in the four States of Georgia, Alaba-\\nma, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In 1729 this", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 GEORGIA.\\nextensive territory was surrendered by treaty\\nto the crown of Great Britain. The following\\nyear the Cherokees made formal submission to\\nSir A. Cuming, Bart.\\nGeorgia was the only one of the original thirteen\\ncolonies that received any aid in its settlement\\nfrom the Government of England. General James\\nOglethorpe conceived and executed the plan of\\nfounding an English colony in that portion of\\nthe Carolina proprietaries grant between the\\nSavannah and Altamaha. His purpose was to\\ncreate an asylum in the New World where in-\\nsolvent debtors, and persons fleeing from religi-\\nous persecution, might begin hfe anew or enjoy\\nreligious freedom. By royal letters-patent issued\\nin June, 1732, the proposed colony was called\\nGeorgia in honor of the reigning prince and\\nthe House of Commons granted ;^io,ooo, which\\nwas soon increased by private subscription to\\n;^36,ooo. Under the charter the trustees had\\npowers of legislation, but could receive no re-\\nward for their services. Even grants of land to\\nthemselves were forbidden.\\nWith 116 emigrants Oglethorpe sailed from\\nEngland in November, 1732, arriving in the Sa-\\nvannah in February. He landed at the present", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 25\\nsite of Savannah, where he was soon after hos-\\npitably received by delegates from the Lower\\nCreeks, who consented that the English might\\npeaceably inhabit among them. The next year\\na small number of Bavarians came over, and\\nwere settled in what is now Effingham county.\\nOglethorpe also established settlements at Da-\\nrien, at Augusta, and on St. Simon s Island.\\nIn 1736 the colony received considerable acces-\\nsions of emigrants, with whom came John and\\nCharles Wesley, the founders of Methodism.\\nIn 1738 the Rev. George Whitefield visited\\nGeorgia, founding the orphan-house at Beth-\\nseda, near Savannah, from funds chiefly col-\\nlected on his tour in the northern colonies.\\nAnticipating invasion by the Spaniards of\\nFlorida, who claimed Georgia, Oglethorpe, on\\nthe renewal of war between England and Spain,\\nled an expedition to St. Augustine, Florida,\\nwhich he besieged without success at the head\\nof 2,000 men. The Spaniards retaliated by\\nlanding in 1742 a small force on St. Simon s\\nisland, from which they were expelled by\\nOglethorpe. They then abandoned further at-\\ntempts. Slavery was introduced into Georgia\\nabout 1750. In 1752 the trustees surrendered", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 GEORGIA.\\ntheir privileges to the crown. A royal gover-\\nnor and council were appointed to administer,\\nin conjunction with delegates of the people,\\nthe government of the province. During the\\nFrench and Indian wars the remote settlements\\nsuffered somewhat from incursions of the Chero-\\nkees. The treaties of 1763 with France and\\nSpain extended the boundaries of Georgia to\\nthe Mississippi on the W., and to St. Mary s\\non the S. After this the colony flourished\\ngreatly until the breaking out of war with Eng-\\nland, at which time the colony was estimated to\\nhave a population of about 70,000 souls. In\\n1775 Sir James Wright, the crown governor,\\nleft the province. Delegates were sent to repre-\\nsent Georgia in the continental congress who\\nsigned the Declaration of Independence. In\\n1778 a British land and naval force occupied\\nSavannah and Augusta, but were subsequently\\ncompelled to abandon the latter place. In\\nSeptember of the same year a combined\\nAmerican and French force, under Lincoln and\\nD Estaing, unsuccessfully attempted the recov-\\nery of Savannah, losing nearly 1,000 men in an\\nassault. Augusta was reoccupied by the con-\\nquerors. Charleston being surrendered by", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 27\\nGeneral Lincoln in 1780, the patriots of South\\nCarolina and Georgia were only able to main-\\ntain a partisan warfare, until the advance of\\nGeneral Greene from the north, at the head of\\nconsiderable forces, resulted in the expulsion of\\nthe royal troops from those provinces. Georgia\\nat the conclusion of peace ratified the several\\nActs constituting her one of the United States\\nof America. She framed her first constitution\\nin 1777, a second in 1789, and a third (which\\nhas been several times amended) in 1798.\\nIn 1803 Georgia ceded to the general gov-\\nernment all her territory west of the Chatta-\\nhoochee, amounting to nearly 100,000 square\\nmiles, out of which the States of Alabama and\\nMississippi were subsequently formed. The\\ncession of Louisiana to the United States was of\\ngreat benefit to Georgia in ending hostilities\\nwhich the Spaniards were continually inciting\\nthe Indians to commit upon the scattered settle-\\nments. By a treaty with the Creeks, Georgia\\nbecame possessed of a large tract in the south-\\nwest of the State. The second war with Eng-\\nland (18 12-15) involved Georgia in hostilities\\nwith the Indians on her western border, who-\\nwere finally subdued by General Andrew Jack-", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 GEORGIA.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0son. In 1 82 1 the cession of Florida to the\\nUnited States relieved Georgia from the long\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0series of Spanish aggressions beginning with her\\nexistence as a colony.\\nIn 1825 a serious difficulty arose between the\\nState and national authorities in consequence of\\nproceedings by the Georgia executive to extin-\\nguish the title to lands in the State held by the\\nCreeks and Cherokees. The head chief of the\\nGreeks, MTntosh, was assassinated by his people\\nfor signing away these lands to the whites. By\\nan Act of Congress passed in 1830, these\\nIndians were subsequently removed to the\\nIndian territory west of the Mississippi.\\nGeorgia formally seceded from the Union in\\nJanuary, 1861. The Government forts and ar-\\nsenals were seized. The first military operations\\nwere on the coast. In April, 1862, Fort Pulaski,\\none of the defences of Savannah, was recaptured\\nby the Federal forces under Com. Du Pont. St.\\nMary s, Brunswick, Darien, and St. Simon s\\nisland were also occupied.\\nIn the beginning of 1863 the Federal forces\\nwere in possession of middle and west Tennes-\\nsee. In September they occupied Chattanooga\\nin strong force, the Confederates falling back", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 29\\nby the Western and Atlantic Railway to La-\\nfayette, Ga. A further advance by General\\nRosecrans, the Federal commander, brought on\\nthe severely contested battle of Chickamauga,\\non the creek of that name (September 20),\\nThe Federals retreated to Chattanooga, which\\nwas soon threatened by the Confederates under\\nBragg. In November the Union army under\\nGeneral Grant drove Bragg from all his posi-\\ntions. In the spring of 1864 the Southern army\\nwas at Dalton, Ga. on the railway to Atlanta,\\nwhich it covered. In May, General Sherman\\nmoved forward against this force a numerous\\nand well-appointed Union army. Severe bat-\\ntles took place at Resaca, Kingston, and AUa-\\ntoona Pass. A series of strategical movements,\\nsignalized by frequent bloody conflicts between\\nthe rival armies, resulted in the possession of\\nAtlanta by the Union forces, September 2.\\nFrom this point Sherman began in November\\nhis memorable march across Georgia to the\\nsea. On December lOth he arrived in the\\nneighborhood of Savannah, captured Fort\\nM Allister by assault, and occupied the city on\\nthe 2 1 St. A cavalry force under General Wil-\\nson entered Georgia from Alabama in April,", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 GEORGIA.\\n1865, capturing Columbus, West Point, and\\nMacon, and making Davis, the Confederate\\nStates president, prisoner. In June, 1865, a\\nprovisional governor was appointed for the\\nState by the president of the United States.\\nA convention assembled in October at Milledge-\\nville, which repealed the ordinance of secession,\\nabolished slavery, and declared the war debt\\nvoid. A new constitution was framed and rati-\\nfied in 1868, and Rufus B. Bullock inaugurated\\nas governor. The restoration of civil govern-\\nment under the new forms was not effected in\\nGeorgia without complications which retarded\\nits re-establishment on a solid foundation, but\\nthe amendments to the national constitution\\nwere at length adopted, and her senators and\\nrepresentatives were admitted to seats in\\nCongress in December, 1870. During the war\\nGeorgia furnished about 80,000 soldiers for the\\nConfederate armies. She emerged from it with\\nher industries prostrated, her treasury empty,\\nlier social and political system revolutionized,\\nher most flourishing cities in ruins. Her great\\nnatural resources are fast advancing her to a\\ncommanding position among her sister States\\nand these resources are developing in the hands", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 31\\nof a free people with greater rapidity and ad-\\nvantage than when half the population was en-\\nslaved. Texas possibly excepted, no Southern\\nState has a greater future than Georgia.", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": ")RG\\nin.\\nI. i\\nr3B\\nJM", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "GE 0RGIA_", "height": "2741", "width": "1884", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "^.x", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA:\\nITS HISTORY, CONDITION,\\nAND RESOURCES\\nBY\\nSAMUEL A. DRAKE\\nWITir 31 A P\\nNEW YORK\\nCHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS\\n1879\\nPrice 25 Cents.", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "The Standard Edition of Gladstone s Essays.\\n(JiFflnings of JPas\\nBY\\nThe Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE.\\nSeven Voltimes, tCmo, Cloth, per volume, $1,00.\\nThe extraordinary scope of Mr. Gladstone s learning the wonder oi\\nhis friends and enemies alike and his firm grasp of every subject he\\ndiscusses, make his essays much more than transient literature. Their\\ncollection and publication in permanent shape were of course certain to\\nbe undertaken sooner or later; and now that they are so published with\\nthe benefit of his own revision, they will need little heralding in England\\nor America.\\nWhat Mr. Gladstone has written in the last thirty-six years the period\\ncovered by this collection\u00e2\u0080\u0094 has probably had the attention of as large an\\nEnglish-speaking public as any writer on political and social topics ever\\nreached in his own life-time. The papers which he has chosen as o{\\nlasting value, and included here under the title of Gleanings of Past\\nYears, will form the standard edition of his miscellanies, both for his\\nE resent multitude of readers, and for those who will study his writing!\\niter.\\nVol- I. The Throne, and the Prince Consort;\\nThe Cabinet, and Constitution.\\nVol. II.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Personal and Literary.\\nIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Historical and Speculative.\\nIV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Foreign.\\nEcclesiastical.\\nVol\\nVol\\nVol\\nVol\\nVI.\\nVol. VIL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Miscellaneous.\\n*j^*T/ii! above books for sale by all booksellers^ or ivill be sent, prepaid, upon\\nreceij t of price, by\\nCHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS, Publishers,\\n743 AND 745 Broadway, New York.", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2840", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3016", "width": "2165", "jp2-path": "georgiaitshistor00drak_0052.jp2"}}