30 = Bringier on the Region of the Mississippi, &c. 
Soil, Productions, &c. 
At first sight, the country about the hot springs appears 
poor, being composed principally of pine lands; but expe- 
rience has proved, that the pine flats, which are very ex- 
tensive, produce the best of wheat, and cotton of a superior 
quality. The soil produces, moreover, the majority of the 
other productions cultivated in that climate; a great quanti- 
ty and variety of grapes, of an exquisite quality, and as 
In e as musket balls, are found in the woods. 
The extensive surrounding country is populating rapidly, 
iiuapite of the repeated orders which have been given to the 
settlers to move out of that region. Emigrants daily pass 
over the Arkansas, and they count already, upward of 3000 
individuals spread, since three years, about the springs Four- 
che Cadeau, Little Missouri prairie aux Anes, Mount 
= os thick soca and ee coeemce B Reds riv- 
above the rafts. 
gi eee 
$. I party | of Cherokee Indians, amounting to about 
tong Mesos went over the Arkansas last year, to form a 
settlement on the Red river; they are increasing every day 
by the accession of dissatisfied persons living on the Arkan- 
sas; they will probably, all pass over there before long; and 
claim both the country eos MAN have in in possession, an 
that wh peut been ni i Te m by treat y, in exchange 
oF Peale sey e gir lan ie Tea ag ai = 
between the Canadian hg 
to the west, soe ed to he south, the Wachitta to th 
east, and Arkansas to the north, is claimed by a small 1 Pin. 
nant of a once formidable: nation of Indians, called the Ar- 
kansas or ‘Quawpaws, from cia floating with the 
current or Gow, stream.) They tend to have come down 
r We 
Meats and the Missour, cna 
e the M: qgeeee below the river Kansas. They 
understand pote gay maieedly well. The Osages are said 
