A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . iublic squares \\\ dillerentI parts of the city. The commercial ad-vantages which it enjoys, from the abun-dant crops of cotton, &^c., raised alongthe banks of the river, and the free ac-cess of ships drawing not more thantwelve or thirteen feet of water, ren-dered it an important town, even whilethe place was made unhealthy by thej practice of wet culture on the neighbor-j ing rice-plantations, which has beenabandonee! since the year 1817, in con-> sequence of an act of the legislature,i passed at that time. In 1820, Savannahsuffer
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . iublic squares \\\ dillerentI parts of the city. The commercial ad-vantages which it enjoys, from the abun-dant crops of cotton, &^c., raised alongthe banks of the river, and the free ac-cess of ships drawing not more thantwelve or thirteen feet of water, ren-dered it an important town, even whilethe place was made unhealthy by thej practice of wet culture on the neighbor-j ing rice-plantations, which has beenabandonee! since the year 1817, in con-> sequence of an act of the legislature,i passed at that time. In 1820, Savannahsuffered to the amoimt of four millions,from a devastating tire, which sweptirresistibly over a large part of the has been taken to embellish thecity, by providing abundance o( shadytrees for the numerous public : these the celebrated Pride-of-India is conspicuous, wlu^se gracefulform and delicate tbliage, with its semi-tropical aspect, render it peculiarly ap-propriate to such a use. Among thehouses, the city now presents a consid-. 388 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. erable number of handsome, well-builtdwellings, while the following are theprincipal public edifices : the arsenal,exchange, courthouse, barracks belong-ing to the United States, theatre, hos-pital, market, banks, public library,three academies, thirteen churches, & Pulaski Monument was erectedin the year 1825, in memory of GeneralsPulaski and Greene, of the revolutionaryarmy. It is a neat and simple obeliskof white marble, fifty-three feet base of the pedestal is ten,feet fourinches by six feet eight inches, and itsheight thirteen feet, the needle wliichsurmduiits the pedestal being thirty-seven feet in height. It is built upona platform of granite, three feet abovethe ground, and the whole is enclosedby a cast-iron railing. It has a veryadvantageous position, in the middle ofone of the public squares. iMiLLEDGEviLLE.—This town is thecapital of the state. It stands on the
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