"The foregoing is a true representation of the line dividing
the Counties of Bulloch and Bryan.
Punctuation and spelling I left the same as the original.
Either just before or after this poem is the survey that shows
some locations: Summerlin's land, head of Mill Branch, Dublin Road,
Wm. Burnsides, Black Creek, Becks Bay, Pond, Head of Mill Creek [again],
Cane Brake, Widow Clantons, Poplar head, field, Pond, Cat Tail Pond,
Boggy ??? [here my xerox copy ends, but visible is Boggy
_____?, and Big L____???" Charles Somers Miller
It was on Tuesday the seventh of November
We began the work as I do remember
As we glided along to a little thick branch
We had to low our heads before in it we could launch
The next thing's a pond that had Cypress not few
It was so thick we could not see Clear through
Bulloch Bay is the next thing that we spide
With Brindy's thick head stuck out of its side
And advancing along we drew near to it
And it was so thick we could not walk through it
Taking an offset and Surrounding it near
We found it too thick for a raccoon or a deer
Now notice the line and see it well tried
You'll find it in width full one mile wide
With briers and bushes spread over that flat
I think it will do for a possom and cat
Bulloch's bay surrounded we'll pursue our course
But find boggy branch if possible worse
In penetrating of it we find it quite tuff
With briers and bushes with all very rough
It was all swamp without any run
When we got in one quarter we had just begun
It four times that distance with all that quite bad
Everything in the center looked silent and sad
With much ado we got out of it
Then steared our course and drew off from it
The next thing we met with was the Catail Pond
Of that portion we was quite fond
It was open and level and with all dry
You may wonder at our fondness and that is why
Through other Ponds and Plantations too
We kept our course and onward did pursue
Then we did strike the head of Mill Creek
Where we had to go slow and withall had to creep
Its is in width equal to Bays Bulloch and Bog
And is almost too thick for a cooter or frog
It was so thick we had to retreat
And take an offset to where we could peepe
We struck that place that is called Poplar head,
[p. 270]
Where cane brake and it together doth wed
And offset we took and round it we did go
Where we left a big thick that is full two miles through
Then onward we went with a great hurray
Till we struck that place that is called becks bay
Through it we went pretty tolerable slick
For it tis not wide nor not very thick
Then onward we strove to the place called Black creek
And through it we went near where Billey does sleep
And as I've taken my pains without knowing the pay
I'le haste to the place that's now called wolfs Bay
In it we wnt and how's the thick say's you?
It's briers and bushes full one quarter through
And as I'm geting near the end of my row
Look on my Plat there Bluf Branch will show
On for Ogeechee we steared our course
With no expectation that we should go across
To reach that point we have thus intended
So we've got there now and our line is thus ended
By John Goodman C.S.B.C.
Surveyed Nov. 7 1843."
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