Letter from Richard Blount in the "Cherokee Nation 165 miles on our course," to John W. A. Sanford in Milledgeville, Georgia.
In the letter Blount reports on the progress of the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; although the team is having difficulty finding its next point, his "prospects have brightend" and his "hopes strengthend lately"; the commissioner from Alabama (who "appeard to be a great...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/3795 |
| Summary: | In the letter Blount reports on the progress of the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; although the team is having difficulty finding its next point, his "prospects have brightend" and his "hopes strengthend lately"; the commissioner from Alabama (who "appeard to be a great woodsman in the Creek Country") maintains that "we shall not miss the mark either way but a few miles." Blount also discusses the "uncommonly dry weather" and the landscape in northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia ("Sometimes a pretty country, tho but little rich land"). A transcription is included. [Original spelling retained.] |
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