260 REMARKABLE MEMORIAL HORN. 
a tenth of their former numbers.” And he describes a waste area 
seven miles in extent, still showing the traces of cultivation once 
carried on by them throughout its whole extent. In 1738, nearly 
half of the Cherokees perished by the small-pox ; but the Creeks 
early recognized the necessity of isolating those attacked by the 
disease ; and so, to a large extent, escaped the decimating influence 
of this terrible scourge. 
The Indians of the Six Nations still preserve at Tuscarora, on the 
Grand River, the Silver Communion Service brought with them from 
the old home of their most warlike tribe, in the Mohawk Valley, of 
the State of New York, and which bears the inscription : 
‘A, R. 1711. Tue Girt or Her Masesty, ANN, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, 
or GREAT BriraIn, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, AND OF HER PLANTATIONS IN 
North America, QuEEN: To Her INDIAN CHAPPEL OF THE MOHAWES.” 
This singularly interesting memorial is of earlier date, and asso- 
ciated alike with a race peculiarly identified with Canadian history 
and with its royal donor. Nevertheless the Picalata horn may be 
fitly classed with the Silver Communion Plate “of the Indian 
Chapel of the Mohawks,” as a historical memorial of incidents other- 
wise lost sight of, and of a representative Indian nation now dis- 
appearing from the scenes where little more than a century ago it 
treated on proud equality with the representatives of the British 
Crown. 
