with success into indigo. It is not to be doubted but in time, when their internal divisions are a little, better composed, the remaining errors in the government corrected, and the people begin to multiply, that they will become a useful province.
Georgia has two towns already known in trade ; Savannah the capital, which stands very well for business about ten miles form [from] the sea, upon a noble river of the same name, which is navigable two hundred miles further for large boats, to the second town, called Augusta ; this stands upon a spot of ground of the greatest fertility, and is so commodiously situated for the Indian trade, that from the first establishment of the colony it has been in a very flourishing condition, and maintained very early six hundred whites in that trade alone. The Indian nations on their borders are the upper and lower Creeks, the Chickesaws, and the Cherokees ; who are some of the most numerous and powerful tribes in America. The trade of skins with this people is the largest we have, it takes in that of Georgia, the two Carolinas and Virginia. We deal with them somewhat in furs likewise, but they are of an inferior sort. All species of animals, that bear the fur, by a wise providence have it more thick, and of a softer and finer kind as you go to the northward ; the greater the cold, the better they are clad.
[Edmund Burke], An Account of the European Settlements in America (London, 1760), II, 269-273.
