could not be purchased for less than twelve;
and so great was the demand for salt, gunpowder, lead, kettles, rum, looking-glasses, ornaments, and other articles of European manufacture, that the traders were allowed by the commissioners to exact as much as the natives could
be persuaded to give in exchange for them.
Upon the settlement of Augusta and the opening of storehouses at that
place, Savannah Town lost ground as a trading post and eventually fell into
decay. Fort Moore, however, built of six-inch planks nailed to posts of light wood, with four towers at the angles on which small field pieces were mounted,
with curtains loopholed for small arms, and with wooden barracks capable of
accommodating a garrison of one hundred men, was, for many years afterwards, preserved as a military establishment.
