Reprint (Volume 1-20) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... during their brief stay in Mobile. They departed on a bright clear summer morning which presented a marked contrast to the day that they entered the harbor. They entered the port friendless and distressed, now they continued their voyage joyously with many friends to pray for their safe passage up the river. Adieus were waved from the wharf as the cutter set out, and were answered by cheers from the enthusiastic exiles. "I arrived at Fort Stoddard on Sunday the 3ist of May. Judge Toulmin had sent horses to convey me to his residence, distant one and a half miles from the river. This highly respectable magistrate treated me with the greatest possible kindness, and expressed the interest he felt in our settlement. He accompaaied me to Fort Montgomery, and introduced me to his son-in-law (Gen. Gaines), who received me in a manner suitable to our recommendations and his well established character. All the topographical documents in his possession were at my disposal, and he instructed those of his officers, who had been employed in reconnoitering the country, to give me the most circumstantial details as to the courses of the navigable rivers, the nature of the soil on their banks, the hills which rise above them, the ways which have been opened on these hills, and the character of the inhabitants who are already established here and there over this immense surface. "On Tuesday I arrived at St. Stephens,17 and on delivering my letters of recommendation, I met with-the greatest possible attention. Mr. McGoffin, of the land office, placed at my disposal all the plans and reports of the surveyors: which most singularly corroborated the information I had previously obtained, although by induction, the surveys extended as yet only to the 32d degree of latitude, wh...