| Show an oli old georgii kontur mons or st lou louis it ia public in august augut 1812 a parly party of hunters found in a mountainous region now known as rabun county georgia a being near nearly ay eight eat high covered wi with th bluish hair end and having a human face adorned with immense ears resembling those of an ass the creature was stone deaf and on that account account seemed to be wholly ua conscious of the approach of the men this monster seems from old accounts to have been seen upon be several v eral occasions during the next four YG years in 1816 a number of ad rera teri from moat most of them surveyors working up the unexplored portions of georgia and the carolina carolinas formed themselves into a party for the tho express purpose of capturing the uncanny being if possible they scoured the hills and valleys for several days and at last returned to the starting point the learned joseph earle then living at culpep culpepper p er va wrote t the he following i in a a letter to john bishop bisho of boston lincoln shire angland T an awful erca ture half animal and half brif men of gigantic stature and fierce mien is known to inhabit tho the wild regions to the sou south h of us some think that there is a race rice of these monsters biding hiding in the hills and tit ains of georgia the place where it or they have been the ofte oft neat enest seen of the few people which inhabit this wild country not a soul which we have approached doubts that the crea creature ture is 13 all that is represented as being indeed kir tir i one poor planter who guided us a great dai bauce from the falls is 19 convinced that he saw him face to face not more than three weeks since an assertion aser tion my adventurous companions were only too ready to believe the many 1 I I 1 ly alca tales told of thia extraordinary ry bein being seem to have created quite a stir all along the atlantic coast A printed circular issued by a land company in 1815 bayt the climate of georgia ic iia elc exceedingly mild the soil productive and the danger of attack from uncouth beasts which are dented as being helf beast and half balf man are fairy tales not worthy of consideration |
