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es, azimuth, parallax, sidereal periods, satellitic inclinations, and synodic revolutions. _D_, with a turn for symbols and history, sees in it something of the "ornaments like the moon" that Gideon captured from the Sheikhs Zebah and Zalmunna, something of Byzantine siege, Ottoman ensign, the Crusades, the Knighthood of Selim, the battle of Tours, and the city of New Orleans. . . . . . . . . The Beautiful . . . . is a relation between the man that sees and the object seen. A perfectly harmonious relation brings perfect beauty. The Poetical . . . . is the beautiful; and this may be expressed either in prose or in poetry. . . . . . . . . . Poetry, more closely defined, is the poetical expressed in rhythmical language. FOOTNOTE: [33] By permission of the author. CHARLES COLCOCK JONES, JR. ~1831=1893.~ CHARLES COLCOCK JONES, JR., was born at Savannah, Georgia, and made his literary fame by special study of the history of Georgia and the life of the Southern Indians. He was by profession a lawyer, was colonel of artillery in the Confederate Army, and from 1865 to 1877 lived and practised law in New York City. Since 1877 his home was "Montrose" near Augusta, Georgia, where he left a fine library and large collections of Indian curiosities and of portraits and autographs. His style is full and flowing, and the following list shows his great activity with his pen. WORKS. Indian Remains in Southern Georgia. Ancient Tumuli and Structures in Georgia. Dead Towns of Georgia. Last Days of Gen. Henry Lee. Life, Labors, and Neglected Grave of Richard Henry Wilde. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast. Histories of Savannah and Augusta. English Colonization of Georgia. _Edited_ his father's works. History of Georgia. Sketch of Tomo-chi-chi. Antiquities of the Southern Indians. Life of Jasper: of Tatnall: of De Soto: of Purry: of Jenkins: of Habersham: of Gen. Robert Toombs: of Elbert: of John Percival. Addresses to Confederate Association, and Historical Society, and on Greene, Pulaski, Stephens. Colonel Jones is the most prolific author that Georgia has produced and his works place him at the head of her historical writers. SALZBURGER SETTLEMENT IN GEORGIA. (_From History of Georgia._[34]) During the four years commencing in 1729 and ending in 1732, more than thirty thousand Salzburgers, impelled by the fierce pers
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