38 © Bringier = “the Mississippi, &c. 
rmi a ae a Ee th = | Wis 2 
Saslemtly regular, covering” an area of about twen treaty 
acres; the trenches remain about eight feet high, and 
ditches which are nearly filled up, seem to have been’ ie 
deep, and about twenty-five feet wide. There are two 
gateways, in the inside. of which there is a large — a 
probably was a covered tee 3 and in the centre there 
two mounds about eighty feet in height, whose aint are 
about three hundred feet in diameter, with a truncated sum- 
mit offering oe surface of about ninety feet across. Both 
are artificial, and perhaps were formed from the dirt out of 
the nenene "The Connery around is perfectly level. 
The Cherokees. 
From this digression Wwe return to: the Cherokees, who 
are divided into seven’ clans were twelve 
particle antok Fegan been too” much reduced, 
joined the o sliomssonnnablnaril now remain but seven, viz. 
: eewalinya—tmean: hhe Waves ‘they are the most 2 cual 
gk ee Seana fi loating hair ; next 
‘The Neekawtaylaway—the Blind in the field; third. 
_ The Neewawtay—the Pyed or Painted; fourth. 
The Neecaway—the Deer in the field ; fifth, SRS 
The N Neeshawnee—(I do not know the meaning ‘fe ths $3) sixth. 
The Neekools—jecds “upon Acorns 5 seventh. 
‘Che ee can take a wile in his Guea ais it would 
sidered as an incest. Each tribe forms a family, 
‘individuals call one another brother and. sister, ma- 
king no difference between their relations of the 
nd those eee ie Teast aft with them. They 
ace a ob ry with other tribes, and the 
jaar to rng tribe a the mother, who protects 
hem as br rs ane 98 - The father has no contro! 
over his own 3 but the mother, er, and glia 
a ny er ie, a even the fatter, has a right t to inter- 
cnt sty foes ta oe 
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