In different parts of the city are the arsenal, magazine, market, academy, three banks, three churches, and the governor's residence. The Courthouse is a fine building, with a basement, two stories, and a steeple one hundred and ten feet high, and two Grecian porticoes on the front. The Planters' and Mechanics' Bank has a portico, in the style of the celebrated Temple of the Winds, in Athens. The private buildings of Columbus display a good degree of taste, as do the decorated yards and flower-gardens which are here and there displayed. The Cotton Warehouse, on the bank of the river, is one of the largest in Georgia, an extensive fireproof building, covering an acre and three quarters. In the year 1838, 42,000 bales of cotton were shipped here, and the amount has increased considerably ATHENS, on the right bank of the Oconee, contains about three thousand inhabitants, and has a pleasant and healthy situation, seventy five miles from Milledgeville. It is the seat of The Georgia University, founded in 1785, which has six professors and about eighty students, with a large philosophical apparatus, and libraries containing about twenty thousand volumes. The railroad affords the means of a daily communication with Augusta. COLUMBUS, two hundred and eightyfour miles from Savannah, stands on the left bank of the Chatahoochee, at an elevation of sixty feet above the water. The falls, which extend for three miles MADISON SPRING.-This fashionable above the town terminate steamboat resort is named after the county in which navigation. They are a succession of it is situated, and is found in the midst rapids, descending, in all, one hun- of a wild region, near Oconee river, dred and eleven feet. The two prin- seven miles distant from Danielsville, The na the county town. It is convenient to go in a stage-coach from Athens. ture of the water has been known about twenty years, but the place has but recently attracted much notice, since accommodations have been provided for visiters. A large hotel has been erected, surrounded by small tenements, for the summer residence of families; and an avenue, several hundred yards in length, leads through the forest to the spring, which is provided with conveniences, as represented in our engraving. The water, which flows from a marble curb, is chalybeate, in a greater degree than the springs of Cheltenham and Brighton, in England. A sulphur spring has been discovered at three miles' distance. MACON is already a considerable and flourishing place, with seven thousand inhabitants, although so lately as the year 1822 there was but a single house on the spot. The situation is favorable for business, being at the head of steam navigation on the Ocmulgee river, which flows through the middle of it, and is crossed by a fine bridge, three hundred and eighty feet long. A great quantity of cotton is annually received at this place, and sent down the river, while there is a daily communication with Savannah by the railroad. An institution for female edutation was opened here in 1839, under the name of the Georgia Female College, which is in a flourishing condition, having about one hundred pupils, under the charge of a president, three professors, and several other instructors. AUGUSTA. This town is situated on the Savannah river, one hundred and thirty-five miles from its mouth, and one hundred and twenty north of Savannah. It is a place of much trade, receiving large quantities of produce from the neighboring country, especially cotton, and being connected with Charleston by the great railroad, which extends beyond it, still further into the interior. During a certain part of the year, the river is navigable by steamboats. The streets are regular, and planted with shade-trees, and the houses are generally of brick. Among the public buildings are the courthouse, city-hall, medical college, hospital, theatre, arsenal, female asylum, several academies and churches. The Medical College of Georgia.The first proposal to establish a medical school in this state was made by Dr. Antony, in 1827; but active measures for it were not taken until the year 1830, when the legislature passed a bill, incor |
