A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . nt, three professors,and several other instructors. Augusta.—This town is situated onthe Savannah river, one humlred nndthirty-five^ miles from its nioulh, and onehundred nnd twiMity nctrth of 8av; is a place of inncli tinde, receivinglarge (piantities of produce from theneighboiing country, especially cotton,and being connected with Cliarlestcni bythe great railroad, which i^xtrnds beyondit, still fuitluM- into tlu» interior. Duringa c(u-t;iiii pjirt (»f the yeiir, the river isnavigable by steamboats. The stre(!ts are regular
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . nt, three professors,and several other instructors. Augusta.—This town is situated onthe Savannah river, one humlred nndthirty-five^ miles from its nioulh, and onehundred nnd twiMity nctrth of 8av; is a place of inncli tinde, receivinglarge (piantities of produce from theneighboiing country, especially cotton,and being connected with Cliarlestcni bythe great railroad, which i^xtrnds beyondit, still fuitluM- into tlu» interior. Duringa c(u-t;iiii pjirt (»f the yeiir, the river isnavigable by steamboats. The stre(!ts are regular, and plantedwith shade-trees, and the houses ;iregenerally of bi-ick. Among the ])td)licbuildings are the courthouse, city-hjill,medical college, hospital, theatre, ar-senal, female asylum, several academiesand churches. Thr MnllraJ College of Georgia.—The first proposal to establish a medicalschool in this state was made by , in 1827; but active measuresfor it were not takeji until the year 1830,when the legislature passed a bill, incor-. 392 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OP GEORGIA. poratingthis institution, and authorizingthem to confer the degree of Doctor inMedicine on persons who have comphedwith the requisitions of the most respec-table institutions in the United 1835, the faculty addressed a circularto all the medical schools, proposing aconvention in Washington city, whichhas not been held, but the honor of theproject is due to this state. In 1833, adonation of -$10,000 was made by thelegislature, and another of $5,000, by thecity council of Augusta, on conditionthat the college should supply the hos-pital, for ten years, with attendance andmedicines. These sums enabled thetrustees to erect the fine edifice whichthey at present occupy. It is a largestructure, in the Doric style, with ac-commodations and arrangements welladapted to the nature of the institution,and which has been pronounced by goodjudges, equal, in this respect, to anyother in the U
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