{"1": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nB. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY\\n1890.", "height": "2908", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Tf6", "height": "2892", "width": "1795", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "F 291\\nJ76\\nCopy 1\\nGEORGIA\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nB. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY\\n1890.", "height": "2908", "width": "1811", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA.\\nD\\n^3\\n.\u00c2\u00bb^-.ix\u00e2\u0080\u009erv^^\\nOw-^\\nPHILADELPHIA:\\nJ. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.\\n1890.", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1890, by J. B. Lippincott Company.", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA.\\nGeorgia, the most southerly of the original thirteen\\nstates which composed the American confederation, is\\nbounded N. by Tennessee, North Carolina, and South\\nCarolina; E. by the Savannah River, which separates\\nit from South Carolina, and by the Atlantic Ocean S.\\nby the St Mary. River and Florida; and W. by the\\nChattahoochee River and Alabama. It lies between\\n30\u00c2\u00b0 31 39 and 35\u00c2\u00b0 N. lat., and in 8i\u00c2\u00b0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 85\u00c2\u00b0 53 38\\nW. long., and has a maximum length and breadth of\\n320 and 256 miles, and an area of 59,475 sq. m. a\\nlittle more than the area of England and Wales. Upon\\nthe Atlantic Ocean it fronts for a distance of 128\\nmiles but the coast, low-lying and sandy, is bordered\\nwith islands, between which and the mainland are a\\nnumber of sounds and creeks so that the total coast-\\nline is said to be about 480 miles..\\nThe territory of Georgia presents five physical divi-\\nsions (i) The Sea Islands, famous for their cotton (see\\nCotton), and covered with a growth of oak, palmetto,\\nmagnolia, cedar, pine, and myrtle; (2) the Swamp\\nRegion, consisting of rich alluvial lands and deltas,\\nformed by the fresh- water rivers, verdant with a dense\\nand semi-tropical vegetation, and admirably adapted", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA.\\nto the production of rice (3) the Pine Barrens, with\\na thin soil, lying between these marsh grounds and the\\nundulating red-clay lands of the interior, sheltered by\\nvast forests of pitch-pine, which are highly prized as\\nlumber and for naval purposes, but lonely and monot-\\nonous (4) Middle Georgia, fertile, salubrious, hilly,\\ncrowned with forests of oak and hickory, the home of\\nthe short-staple cotton-plant, a fine fruit region, and\\nyielding Indian corn, oats, wheat, and other cereals\\nand lastly (5) Cherokee Georgia, abounding in moun-\\ntains, with fertile valleys, streams, and waterfalls.\\nCereals, grasses, and cotton are profitably grown\\namong the valleys and upon the hillsides of Upper\\nGeorgia and increasing attention is being bestowed\\nupon the breeding of stock. In the central area of the\\nlast-mentioned division occurs the watershed, giving\\ndirection to the streams which flow respectively into\\nthe Gulf of Mexico on the one hand, and into the\\nAtlantic Ocean on the other. The entire state is well\\nwatered. Of the rivers emptying into the Atlantic\\nOcean the most noteworthy are the Savannah, naviga-\\nble as far as Augusta the Great Ogeechee the\\nAltamaha, through its tributaries the Oconee and the\\nOcmulgee navigable as high as Milledgeville and\\nMacon the Satilla and the St Mary. The streams\\nbelonging to the Gulf system are the upper waters of\\nthe Coosa the Chattahoochee, navigable as far as\\nColumbus the Flint, navigable up to Albany and\\nthe Alapaha.\\nWith the exception of the swamp-region in the\\nsouth and south-east of the state, the climate is salu-\\nbrious and agreeable. The mean temperature is 78\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA.\\n5\\nin summer and 47\u00c2\u00b0 in winter; the annual rainfall\\nnearly 50 inches. In the lowlands oranges and other\\nsemi-tropical fruits readily mature, whilst in the up-\\nlands peaches, apples, pears, c. flourish and fruits\\nand market vegetables generally, being earlier than in\\nthe North, are exported in considerable quantities.\\nThe forests contain numerous species of oak, including\\nthe evergreen live-oak, which has been styled the king,\\nas the Magnolia grandiflora has been styled the queen\\nof the southern woods. Of great value is the long-\\nleaf pine, furnishing both choice timber and naval\\nstores. The list of useful native woods includes also\\nthe red, the white, and the post oak, the water-oak, the\\nblack walnut, the red cedar, the cypress, the poplar,\\nand the locust. Among the indigenous flora are found\\nvaluable medicinal herbs and dye-plants and the\\nflowers often are of great beauty. Game is still abun-\\ndant, in spite of the injury resulting from the failure to\\nenact and enforce stringent laws for its preservation.\\nSea-fowl throng the coast and estuaries, alligators are\\nnumerous in the rivers, and food-fishes, oysters, clams,\\nturtle, c. are abundant. By reason of the denudation\\nof their banks, rendering their waters turbid and causing\\nunruly currents, the fresh-water streams have suffered\\nmaterial diminution in their animal life. From them\\nfood-fishes, once so abundant, have largely disappeared,\\nand the pearl-bearing unio is now seldom seen; but\\nthe United States Fish Commission has been success-\\nful in the introduction of some varieties of fishes better\\nsuited to the changed condition.\\nThe mineral wealth of Georgia is apparent in the\\ngold-bearing strata of the Cherokee region, which for", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6 GEORGIA.\\nthe past fifty years have been successfully worked, in\\nextensive deposits of coal, in iron, copper, silver, and\\nlead ores, in marbles of attractive varieties, in vast\\nfields of granite and slate, and in the presence of\\ngypsum, limestone, syenite, marl, buhrstone, soap-\\nstone, asbestos, shales, tripoli, fluor-spar, kaolin, clays,\\nporcelain, aragonite, tourmaline, emerald, carnelian,\\nruby, opal, chalcedony, agate, amethyst, jasper, gar-\\nnets, rose-quartz, beryl, and occasional diamonds. In\\n1837-64 the United States branch mint at Dahlonega\\ncoined gold bullion to the value of over six million\\ndollars, mostly from metals extracted from the aurifer-\\nous rocks of the adjacent territory. To the develop-\\nment of these mineral resources of the state much\\nattention is being paid, and with profitable results.\\nPrior to the civil war the inhabitants of Georgia were\\nalmost exclusively engaged in agriculture and com-\\nmerce but more recent industries are the lumber trade,\\nand extensive cotton, woollen, and other manufactures.\\nThe most important mills are at Augusta, Columbus,\\nAtlanta, Athens, and Roswell. Recent statistics show\\nthat there are now within the state 54 cotton and\\nwoollen mills, with 350,000 spindles and 8000 looms;\\nwhile the lumber, flour, grist, and pulp mills, c. are\\nbeing multiplied, and the iron and steel trade in the\\nnorth-western part of the state is overtaking the cotton\\nmanufacture in importance.\\nAlthough, since the civil war, the production of\\nblack-seed cotton on the sea islands and along the\\ncoast has materially diminished, the yield of short\\nstaple cotton has greatly increased. The average crop\\nof this variety will now approximate 1,000,000 bales,", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "GEORGIA. 7\\nworth at the point of consumption or of export over\\n;^40,ooo,ooo. Of the other yearly agricultural products\\nof Georgia the rice crop (25,000,000 pounds), the\\nIndian corn (25,000,000 bushels), wheat, oats, sweet\\npotatoes, and tobacco are important and there is a\\nyearly yield of 600,000 gallons of syrup, 650 hogs-\\nheads of cane-sugar, 5,000,000 pounds of butter, and\\n700,000 pounds of honey. From the ports of Savan-\\nnah, Darien, Brunswick, and St Mary shipments of\\nlumber and naval stores are annually increasing.\\nNavigable rivers and an admirable system of railways\\n(over 3000 miles), besides three short canals, furnish\\nconvenient transportation from the interior. Notably\\nat Savannah, coastwise and foreign bound steamers\\nand sailing-vessels convey the products of the region\\nto the desirable markets of the world.\\nThe state is divided into 137 counties, 10 congres-\\nsional districts, i supreme judicial district, 21 judicial\\ncircuits, and numerous militia districts. Atlanta is the\\ncapital, and Savannah the commercial metropolis.\\nAugusta, Macon, Columbus, and Athens may be men-\\ntioned among the thriving cities and towns of this\\ncommonwealth. The population has steadily increased\\nfrom 82,548 in 1790 to (i860) 1,057,286; (1870)\\n1,184,109; (1880) 1,542,180. It is now estimated to\\nexceed 1,750,000, of whom the whites form slightly\\nmore than half\\nThere exists in Georgia a thorough system of free\\ncommon schools separate schools are conducted for\\nboth white and coloured pupils. Opportunities for\\nhigher education are afforded by the university of\\nGeorgia, at Athens, by its dependent colleges at", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 GEORGIA.\\nDahlonega, Milledgeville, Thomasville, Cuthbert, and\\nAtlanta, and by sundry denominational colleges. At\\nthe university of Georgia and its dependent colleges\\ntuition for Georgians is free. Georgia has also a school\\nfor the blind at Macon, for the education of the deaf\\nand dumb at Cave Spring, and an asylum for lunatics\\nnear Milledgeville.\\nHistory. The colony of Georgia was founded by\\nJames Oglethorpe (q. v.) in 1733, as a refuge for poor\\ndebtors and for the persecuted Protestants of Germany,\\nand received its name in honour of George II. In\\n1752 Oglethorpe surrendered his charter to the British\\ngovernment. Georgia was thereafter classed as an\\nEnglish province, untH, with her sister colonies, she\\nsucceeded in casting off her allegiance to the crown.\\nSave during the few years of the civil war, she has\\nsince continued a component member of the confedera-\\ntion of the United States of America, and has long\\nbeen regarded as the Empire State of the South.\\nDespite the liberation of her slave population, which\\nin i860 numbered 450,033, and was valued at ;^302,-\\n694,855, and in the face of grievous losses occasioned\\nby the war, the state has during the last quarter of a\\ncentury manifested recuperative powers of a marvellous\\nsort.", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nIII\\n014 498 566 7", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 498 566 7", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0016.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS\\n014 498 566 7", "height": "2796", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "georgia_00jone_0017.jp2"}}