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Objects of Interest.&mdash;Perhaps the most beautiful scenery in Georgia is to be found in the mountain region traversed by the Air Line railway. About 2 from the town of the  of that  falls 185  over a precipice. Fifteen beyond  are the  of, where the river descends successive terraces of broken  between the walls of a  800  deep. In this vicinity are the charming of  and. In the extreme north-east is gap and the  of. Connected with this region, once the -grounds of the like, are many s. The country between  and  is deeply interesting from having been the -ground of opposing  in the. mountain, itself the scene of a, commands a view of the country which for two the   disputed  by. mountain, 9 from, is much visited. The Chattahoochee, in the neighbourhood of, is picturesque; and is one of the most attractive and idiosyncratic  of the. There are numerous scattered over the, which are much resorted to by.

.&mdash;Before the arrival of the country now embraced in Georgia was inhabited by the and. The possessed the north, the  the south. Both were very powerful and like, the numbering 6000 riors, and having 64  and. To be more precise, the country extended from the 34th  north to the country of the, and from the  of the  emptying upon the   westward to the. The whole course of the was within this magnificent domain, now mostly embraced in the four  of Georgia,, , and. In this extensive territory was surrendered by  to the  of. The the  made formal submission to. Georgia was the only one of the that received any aid in its from the  of. conceived and executed the plan of founding an  in that portion of the  proprietaries’  between the Savannah and Altamaha. His purpose was to create an in the  where  ors, and persons fleeing from, might begin life anew or enjoy. By  issued in   the proposed  was called Georgia in honour of the ; and the  ed 10,000, which was soon increased by private  to 36,000. Under the the s had powers of, but could receive no  for their services. Even s of to themselves were forbidden. With 116  from  in, arriving in the Savannah in. He landed at the present site of, where he was soon after hospitably received by from the , who consented that the  might peaceably inhabit among them. The a small number of ns came over, and were settled in what is now  county. also established s at, at , and on island. In the  received considerable accessions of, with whom came  and , the founders of. In the  visited Georgia, founding the  at, near , from funds chiefly collected on his tour in the. Anticipating invasion by the of, who claimed Georgia, , on the renewal of  between  and , led an expedition to , , which he  without success at the head of 2000 men. The retaliated by landing in  a small force on  island, from which they were expelled by. They then abandoned further attempts. was introduced into Georgia about. In the s surrendered their privileges to the. A  and  were appointed to administer, in conjunction with s of the people, the government of the province. During the s the remote s suffered somewhat from incursions of the. The of  with  and  extended the boundaries of Georgia to the  on the W., and to StMary’s on the S. After this the  flourished greatly until the breaking 