The student's history of GeorgiaFrom the earliest discoveries and settlements to the end of the year 1883Adapted for general reading and the use of schools . rted that they had plenty to eat,and seemed comfortable and happy. The entire populationof the Creek nation in i8io was more than twenty 1818 it was reduced to about ten thousand. Anothermeeting was held with the Cherokees about the same the chiefs headed by Path Killer met the governor ofTennessee as agent of the United States to make definite ar-rangements about the removal of the Cherokees beyond the Mississippi. T
The student's history of GeorgiaFrom the earliest discoveries and settlements to the end of the year 1883Adapted for general reading and the use of schools . rted that they had plenty to eat,and seemed comfortable and happy. The entire populationof the Creek nation in i8io was more than twenty 1818 it was reduced to about ten thousand. Anothermeeting was held with the Cherokees about the same the chiefs headed by Path Killer met the governor ofTennessee as agent of the United States to make definite ar-rangements about the removal of the Cherokees beyond the Mississippi. This was the wish of a large part of them in 15 170 STUDENTS HISTORY OF GEORGIA. [1819. order to have more room for hunting. Nearly half the na-tion, being three hundred and fifty-six families, enrolledthemselves for emigration. The lands that they were en-titled to in Georgia were^to be given in exchange for landswest of the Mississippi. 3. The first steam packet in America for passage acrossthe ocean was made by Georgia enterprise. This importantundertaking was begun in Savannah, by a company whichwas formed in 1818. The Georgia Company contracted to. First Steamship. have the ship built in New York, and named it April, 1819, the vessel was completed, and brought toSavannah, where it excited much curiosity. It left the portin May, bound for Liverpool, England. This was the firstvoyage across the Atlantic ever attempted by a voyage was successful, the vessel going to St. Petersburg,in Russia, and returning to Savannah in fifty days. CaptainRogers was commander, and reported neither a screw,bolt, nor rope parted, although he had experienced roughweather. 4. In May, 1819, James Monroe, the President of theUnited States, visited Savannah, in company with Mr. Cal-houn, Secretary of War, General Gaines, and others. Healso extended his visit, and was received with hearty wel-come in several places in the State. 5. During the early part of 1819, the territory
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