80 Extracts from a MS. Journal. 



XVI. Extracts from a MS. Journal of the late Mr, 

 James Boyd, of Lancaster^ in Pennsylvania. Con- 

 eluded fom Vol. I. Part I. p. 99. 



THE Creek-to\\Tis are more regular than those 

 of the Chactaws ; their houses are better, and not so 

 much scattered. In the centre of each town, their 

 Council-houses stand. These are four shaids built so 

 as to front each other, which form a square. In these 

 are large seats, covered with platted reeds. The posts, 

 which support the roof, are generally carved, and paint- 

 ed, after their own taste, which make a tolerable show. 



Near the square, stands a large Round-House, in the 

 form of a lime-kiln. In this they dance and drink the 

 " Black-Drink," at certain times. 



December 31. The weather is so warm that, though 

 at this season of the year, the frogs make as much noise 

 as they do in the middle of Spring, to the northward. 



We are now out of the Chactaw-country. Their 

 land, in general, is broken, and the soil thin, but very 

 well watered. 



The river Tomblgby is navigable within sixty miles 

 of the Tenace-waters, and runs through the centre of 

 the Chickasaw nation. 



That part of the Creek-country we passed through, 

 is, in general, pine-barren, except what lay on the ri- 



