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Topography: The extreme length of the State north and south is 320 miles; extreme width, 254 miles; area, 59,475 square miles, or 38,064,000 acres. The surface is quite diversified.

In the north are the Blue Ridge and Etowah mountains, with other spurs of the Appalachian range. The centre consists of an elevated table land, which gradually diminishes in height until the low and swampy country near the coast and along the Florida border is reached. In the southeast corner of the Okefinokee swamp, a series of marshes having a circuit of over 150 miles.

The coast extends from Tybee Sound southwest to Cumberland Sound, a distance of about 100 miles, but owing to the irregularities and indentations the shore line is nearly five times that length. The most important rivers falling into the Atlantic are the Savannah and Altamaha.

The other principal rivers are the Ogeechee, Ocmulgee, Oconee, Satilla, Allapaha, Chattahoochee and Flint. Many of the rivers of the mountain country are rapid and contain picturesque cataracts. Of these the chief are the Falls of Tallulah, in Habersham county, and Toccoa Falls, in the Tugaloo, 180 feet high; Towaliga Falls, in Monroe county; and the Amicolah Falls, which have a descent, including the rapids and the cataracts, of 400 feet in less than a quarter of a mile.

Climate: In the north the summers are comparatively cool and the climate is healthy, but in the southern lowlands the heat is often oppressive, the thermometer sometimes reaching 110º Fahrenheit.

The winters are very mild, the temperature seldom falling below 30º Fahrenheit. The annual mean temperature at Augusta is about 63º, and at Savannah 66º, and the rainfall is over sixty inches per annum.

The swamp lands of the southeast are unhealthy, and malarious fevers prevail at certain seasons.

History: Georgia, the southernmost of the original thirteen States, was the latest of them settled by white men. It was named after George II., who, June 9, 1732, granted the territory to a corporation entitled the "Trustees for settling the colony of Georgia." Prior to this time it was nominally included in the Carolina charter, but was also claimed by Spain.

In January, 1733, Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe, with a colony of 120 persons, arrived safely at Charleston, and early in the spring Savannah was founded. The Spanish war occurred in 1739-42. In 1752 the colonial charter was surrendered, and Georgia became a royal province.

In 1755 a general assembly was established. On the breaking out of the Revolution the Georgians were loyal to the patriot cause, and suffered greatly during the war, the British troops capturing Savannah and other cities, and devastating the entire country.

Augusta and Sunbury fell into the hands of the enemy in 1779, and an attempt to recapture Savannah in October of the same year failed, and it remained in the hands of the invaders until 1782. Wars with the Creeks and Cherokees followed, but in 1790 and 1791 treaties of peace were concluded, and in 1802 the Creeks ceded their lands in the southwest to the United States. Georgia also ceded to the United States all its claims to lands west of the existing State limits, which had been granted under the English charter.

The Cherokee Indians were removed to the Indian Territory in 1838, and thus the lands which they had held came into the hands of the government. A convention met at Milledgeville, Jan. 16, 1861, and on the 19th passed au ordinance of secession. In the following March the constitution of the Confederate States was ratified. In January the State authorities seized Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson, on the Savannah river, and the United States arsenal at Augusta, obtaining about seventy cannon, 20,000 small arms, and a large quantity of ammunition and ordnance stores.

Active operations were begun by the Federals in November, but were confined to the coast. Commodore Dupont occupied Big Tybee island, at the mouth of the Savannah, and bombarded Fort Pulaski, which surrendered in April, 1862. He also took possession of Brunswick, Darien and other points.

In May, 1864, Georgia became the field of active land operations. Atlanta had been strongly fortified, and it was not evacuated until September 1, after a desperate resistance on the part of the Confederates, and several hard-fought struggles. Sherman, having removed the inhabitants and destroyed everything of value to the enemy, left Atlanta November 15, with 65,000 men, and began his famous march to the sea.

Milledgeville was reached on the 23rd, and the coast on December 10. Fort McAllister was taken by storm on the 13th, and on the night of the 20th Savannah was evacuated. Thus the Confederacy was cut in half; and the operations of Gen. Wilson, who entered Georgia from Alabama, in April, 1865, took Columbus, West Point and Macon, and on May 10 captured Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, at Irwinville, ended the war in this section.

The first State constitution was framed in 1777, a second in 1789, and a third in 1798. This was several times amended, and was superseded in 1868 by a new one.

In 1877 another new constitution was adopted. The process of reconstruction was not completed until 1870. In that year the Georgia senators and representatives were admitted to Congress, all the amendments having been previously ratified, and colored men declared eligible to office by the State supreme court.

Population: Census of 1880: Males, 762,981; Females, 779,199; Native, 1,531,616; Foreign, 10,564; White, 816,906; Colored, 725,274, including 17 Chinese and 124 Indians and Half-breeds.

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