Note: The following is one of a series of columns about early shipping in Georgia and Bulloch County. Michel Chevalier, in his book "Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States," (1837) wrote about the "Lines of Communications Along the Atlantic." Chevalier stated that on "the coast of the United States from Boston to Florida ... there is almost a continuous line of inland navigation. ... In the south, by a number of long sounds, or by the narrow passes between the mainland and the chain of low islands."