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149 1795.

   "The state of Georgia, the worst regulated part of the Union, is a compound of nations of all European countries, and of all the other parts of the United States.  Its recent history is a tissue of continual disputes among the inhabitants as well as with other states, without the least mark of public spirit.  The moral picture must necessarily admit of exceptions;  I have myself, during my short residence in Savannah, found men, who would do honor to any country.  But the exceptions, I apprehend, are few.
   "As late as the last session, a more regular administration of justice has been established; but it is not yet in force, nor will it be so for some time to come.  The sessions are not regularly held; the empanelling of the juries meets with great difficulties, and yet the business of a lawyer is one of the most lucrative professions.

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  "Almost all the land in Georgia is good; but different in quality according to its situation; for at the distance of one hundred miles from the sea it continues rising as far as the Apalachian mountains, which are connected with the chain of mountains that intersects the whole of North America, proceeding from Canada, disappears at the Gulf of Mexico; and, under the name of Tapinambourg, rises again in South America, after having first shewn itself in the Antilles: at least, this is the opinion of several naturalists.  The lands appear better here than those similarly situated in Carolina; and from the Apalachians to the Mississippi they appear still better: