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GEORGIA.
Below Charleston in South Carolina, below Cape Fear, below Port Royal, a great river called the Savannah poured into the sea.

Below the Savannah, past the Ogeechee, sailing south between the sandy islands and the main, ships came to the mouth of the river Altamaha.

Thus far was Carolina.
But below Altamaha the coast and the country inland became debatable, probably Florida and Spanish, liable at any rate to be claimed as such, and certainly open to attack from Spanish St.Augustine.
Here lay a stretch of seacoast and country within hailing distance of semi-tropical lands.

It was low and sandy, with innumerable slow-flowing watercourses, creeks, and inlets from the sea.