A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . under thecharge of a president, three professors,and several other instructors. Augusta.—This town is situated onthe Savannah river, one hundred andthirty-five miles from its mouth, and onehundred and twenty north of is a place of much trade, receivinglarge quantities of produce fiom theneighboring country, especially cotton,and being connected with Charleston bythe great railroad, which extends beyondit, still further into the interior. Duringa certai
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . under thecharge of a president, three professors,and several other instructors. Augusta.—This town is situated onthe Savannah river, one hundred andthirty-five miles from its mouth, and onehundred and twenty north of is a place of much trade, receivinglarge quantities of produce fiom theneighboring country, especially cotton,and being connected with Charleston bythe great railroad, which extends beyondit, still further into the interior. Duringa certain part of the year, the river isnavigable by steamboats. The streets are regular, and plantedwith shade-trees, and the houses aregenerally of brick. Among the publicbuildings are the courthouse, city-hall,medical college, hospital, theatre, ar-senal, female asylum, several academiesand churches. The Medical College of Georgia.—The first proposal to establish a medicalschool in this state was made by , in 1827; but active measuresfor it were not taken until the year the legislature passed a bill, incor-. 392 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. poratingthis institution, and authorizingthem to confer the degree of Doctor inMedicine on persons who have compliedwith 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 piesent occupy. It is a largestructure, in the Doric style, with ac-commodations and arrangements welladapted to the nature of the institution,and which has bee
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