Rackoon mountain and Nickojack creek are described under their proper heads.

There is also a mineral spring in this county.

Rossville, an old Indian town, in this county, 20 miles N., just below the Tennessee line. Gamble's Seminary is 20 miles S., just W. of Jackson's road.

Walthourville, village, on a sandy elevation, in the N. W. part of Liberty. This is a summer retreat, and some families remain during the whole year. Here is an Academy, 30 dwelling-houses, and a house of worship. The permanent residents are about 250; but in the summer this number is doubled.

Walton County [84] has Jackson on the N. E., Clark on the E., Morgan on the S., Newton on the S. W., and Gwinnett on the N. W. Academy funds $1,455 70. Poor School do., $1,466 92.-Population 6,323. Monroe is the capital.

Ware County [85] is bounded N. by Appling, E. by Wayne and Camden, S. by Florida, and W. by Lowndes and a corner of Irwin. There are about two hundred voters in this new county. Academy funds, $236 67."The Senator reports the Academy and Poor school fund consolidated, and misapplied, and converted to specula tion"!! Waresboro is the capital.

Waresborough, p. t. and cap., Ware county, and named in honor of Nicholas Ware, late Senator in Congress, is situated 4 miles S. the St. Illa, 163 measured miles S. S. E. Milledgeville, 76 N. W. St. Mary's, 32 S. Holmesville, and about 70 N. E. Thomasville. It contains but three or four houses and stores, and the C. H. is now going up. The road from Milledgeville is via Jacksonville; thence take Blackshear's road, which leads to Camp Pinckney. Entertainment at Carver's, 30 miles from Jacksonville, 26 Waresboro.

Warren County [86] is bounded N. by Taliaferro and Wilkes, E. by Columbia, S. by Jefferson, W. by Washington and Hancock. Academy funds, $1,455 70. Poor School do., $1,179 18. Pupils taught on this fund in 1828, 144.-Population 9,382.

Warm Springs. [See Mineral springs.]

Warrenton, p. t. and cap., Warren county, and named after the brave Gen. Warren, the martyr at Breed's Hill battle, is situated 45 miles E. N. E. Milledgeville, 43 W. Augusta, 12 S. E. Powelton, 22 E. Sparta, and contains 24 dwelling-houses, 7 stores, 5 offices, shops, &c., Academy, and Methodist Meeting-house.

Warsaw River and Sound is the southern channel by which the Savannah discharges its waters into the ocean.

Warsaw, a cluster of houses and P. O., in Gwinnett county, on the S. bank of the Chattahoochee. There is a store and house also on the W. side; 12 miles from Lawrenceville, on the road to New Echota. A stage once run to this place from Lawrenceville.

Westfield is merely a store and house, 6 miles E. of Sparta.

Washington County, [87] lies S. of Hancock; part of Warren and Jefferson are on the E., Emanuel and Laurens on the S., and Wilkinson with a corner of Baldwin on the W. Washington once embraced all the territory from the Cherokee corner north, extending from the Ogechee to the Oconee, S. to Liberty county, and was surveyed in 1784, and subsequently divided into Greene, Hancock, &c. The first election for county officers was held below the Shoals of Ogechee; some of the voters, among whom was Major Oliver Porter, of Greene, had to travel 100 miles to attend it.

In the first settlement a village was built 8 miles below Milledgeville, on the E. bank of the Oconee, called Federal Town, containing four framed houses, and a dozen cabins, Fort, &c. The soldiers died in the Fort, and a

* In this town lived for a number of years, Dr. Bushnell, formerly of Saybrook, Connecticut, inventor of a submarine vessel, called the "Turtle" and since the " Torpedo." By this instrument great damage was done to the British ships, during the Revolutionary war. He was an eccentric character, very cautious in uttering his thoughts, and generally distant and forbidding. By his economy he accumulated considerable property, removed into Habersham, and died there in 1826. Mr. Hargrave, his executor, carried the proceeds of his property to his friends in Connecticut, amounting to $9,000.

new one was erected near the E. landing of General Holt's ferry. Population, 8,605. Academy funds, $929 14. Poor School do., $1,708 07, which is at interest, except $41808, expended. Pupils taught on this fund in 1827, 117, at 15 schools. Success to the cause of educating the poor! Sandersville is the capital. Governor Irwin lived and died in this county.

Washington, p. t. and cap., Wilkes county, named in honor of the illustrious Washington, after whom counties in every State in the Union, and towns without number, have received their names, is situated on the great road from Augusta to Nashville, Tennessee, 66 miles N. E. Milledgeville, 53 N. W. Augusta, 18 W. Lincolnton, 14 S. E. Mallorysville, 31 E. N. E. Greensboro, 24 S. E. Lexington, and contains C. H., with an excellent clock, Jail, Branch of the State Bank, Academies, and houses of worship for Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists, 73 dwelling-houses, 33 stores and shops, and about 400 white inhabitants, with probably the same number of blacks.

In 1774 a fort was built on the site of this town as a defence against Indian intrusion and assault.

A weekly paper has been published at Washington since 1800.

Watkinsville, p. t. and cap., Clark county, named after Col. Robert Watkins, of Augusta, long an efficient member of our Legislature, is 64 miles N. N. W. Milledgeville, 7 S. Athens, 27 N. N. W. Greensboro, 20 N. N. E. Madison, and contains C. H., Jail, Academy, 20 houses, 4 stores, 3 law offices.

Wayne County, [88] is of an oblong shape, 33 miles long and 18 broad. M'Intosh is on the N. E., Glynn on the E., Camden on the S., and Ware and Appling on the W. The C. H. is in the N. E. corner of the county, not more than two miles from the Glynn line, 26 miles from Darien, 24 N. W. Brunswick. Here are only two houses, and a P. O. Academy funds received, $1,051 67. The Academy is at Waynesville. No school for the poor in the county. Population, 1,659.

Waynesville, p. v., in Wayne county, 9 miles S. the C

H., at the Mineral springs. Here are ten houses and the Academy, and it is considered a healthy spot.

Waynesborough, p. t. and cap., Burke county, and named after General Anthony Wayne, is 80 miles E. Milledgeville, 4 from Briar creek, 25 E. Louisville, 30 S. S. W. Augusta, and contains C. H., Jail, houses of worship for Presbyterians, and Methodists, 25 dwellings, 6 stores, and 7 offices and shops.

West Point is a village on both sides the Chattahoochee, in Troup. There are about 20 families, and 40 buildings, on the E. side; three or four families on the W. side, and some dozen buildings of all descriptions. Methodist Meeting-house, and P. O., on E. side; 15 miles S. W. Lagrange, 12 S. Vernon, 38 on the E. side, and 35 on the W. side the river, to Columbus. The E. side was formerly called Franklin. This place is 374 feet higher than Columbus, and by the river 413 miles distant. This place is little above Miller's Bend, and some six miles above the S. W. corner of Troup county.

Whitesville, is a pretty little village, in the N. W. part of Harris, on N. side of the Pine mountains, 11 miles W. of Hamilton, 27 N. Columbus, 15 S. Lagrange, 10 S. E. West Point, on the great road from Lagrange to Columbus. It contains an Academy, 3 stores, 2 taverns, 16 dwellings, and 2 doctors. This place was begun in 1833. Baptist Meeting-house 13 miles S., Mountain creek.

Whiteplains is a village in the lower corner of Greene; contains an Academy, P. O., Meeting-houses for Baptists and Methodists, tavern and store or two. Whiskey has occasioned mischief at this spot; several persons have come to untimely deaths in this neighborhood.

Wilkes County [89] is bounded N. by Elbert, E. by Lincoln, S. by parts of Columbia, Warren and Taliaferro, and W. by the latter county and Oglethorpe.-Population, 16,975. In 1824 this was the most populous county in the State, but since that time, part of the county has been taken to form Taliaferro, and of course a deduction must be wade in the number. Academy funds received, $778 30. Poor School do., $1,875 13, and no report of expenditure.—

We should hope the enlightened county of Wilkes has not forgotten the children of the poor. Washington is the capital.

Public places, &c.-Mallorysville, Centreville..

The territory now called Wilkes was obtained by the treaty at Augusta, in 1773. The inhabitants during the war were unanimous almost to a man, in their opposition to Britain, and so fierce was their resistance that the tories gave this section of our State the distinctive appellation of "Hornet's nest."

The bones of several distinguished men rest in this county, among which may be mentioned those of Rev. Messrs. Mercer, Springer, and Whatley, of the clergy. Mr. Mercer was a bold, plain, nervous, and powerful preacher; few men could produce such lasting impressions on a congregation. Mr. Springer, though of a different denomination, was his intimate friend, and they frequently preached together. Both of these men established classical schools in their neighborhoods, and though Mr. M. himself was not much of a scholar, they both were mindful of this well established fact, that Science is the handmaid of Religion, and that neither will flourish long alone. A nation wholly infidel will soon sink into barbarism; and that mind which has been illumined by the truths of the Gospel, will be reaching after all the lights which the torch of Science can throw on these truths.

Mr. Whatley was a soldier at the siege of Augusta, and his story of suffering and trial would bring tears from the dryest eye. He was an odd, blunt man, and began preaching at an advanced age, and though sometimes a smile was excited by his oddities, he was universally beloved ;-he was a sterling man. Humility was one of the distinctive features of his character. Among the statesmen who lived here may be named Abbott, and Campbell, and Talbot.Bibb also resided in this county, but he removed to Alabama. Wilkinson County [90] is bounded by Jones and Baldwin on the N.; by Washington on the E.; Laurens and Pulaski on the S.; and Twiggs on the W. Population