On the 18th Mr.Oglethorpe went ashore on Tench's Island, where he left eight men, with directions to prepare huts for the people who would disembark, and tarry there till he could make farther arrangements.

He proceeded thence to Beaufort, a frontier town of South Carolina, situated on Port Royal Island, at the mouth of the Coosawatchie river, having an excellent harbor.
Early the next morning he went ashore, and was saluted by a discharge of the artillery.

The Colonists, arriving on the 20th, were cheerfully received and assisted by Lieutenant Watts, Ensign Farrington, and other officers of the King's Independent Company on that station; and were waited upon and welcomed by Mr.Delabarr and gentlemen of the neighborhood.[1] [Footnote 1: "_Brief Account of the Progress of the First Colony sent to Georgia_,"-- inserted in the 46th volume, p.

234, of the "_Political State of Great Britain_;" and it makes the second Tract in FORCE'S Collection.] While the sea-worn emigrants rested and refreshed themselves, the indefatigable Oglethorpe, accompanied by Colonel William Bull, a man of knowledge and experience, went up the river to explore the country.
Having found a pleasant spot of ground near to Yamacraw, they fixed upon the place as the most convenient and healthy situation for the settlers, and there marked out a town, which, from the Indian name of the river that ran past it, they called Savannah.
On the 24th he returned, and with the emigrants celebrated the following Sunday as a day of Thanksgiving for their safe arrival.
A sermon was preached by the Reverend Mr.Jones,[1] by exchange of services with Doctor Herbert, who officiated at Beaufort.

There was a great resort of gentlemen and their families, from the neighborhood, to welcome the new-comers, and unite with them in the gladness of the occasion.
[Footnote 1: REV LEWIS JONES.