A

HISTORY OF GEORGIA,

FROM ITS

FIRST DISCOVERY BY EUROPEANS

TO THE ADOPTION OF

THE PRESENT CONSTITUTION

IN

MDCCXCVIII.

BY

REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, M.D.,

PROFESSOR OF BELLES LETTRES, HISTORY, ETC.,

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:

D. APPLETON AND CO., 200 BROADWAY.
SAVANNAH: WILLIAM THORNE WILLIAMS.

MDCCCXLVII.

WG/68/348

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by

REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, M.D.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New

York.

E. O. JENKINS, PRINTER,
No. 114 Nassau Street.

CONTENTS.

BOOK FIRST.

ANTE-COLONIAL HISTORY.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND SPANISH VOYAGES TO GEORGIA,

CHAPTER II.

TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES OF FERDINAND DE SOTO,

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