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For the faithful performance of this treaty, the Indians agreed 

 to leave in the hands of the Commissioners five of their people, 

 namely: Chuuocklie Mico, of the Cowetas.; Cuchas, of the 

 Cussetas ; Emathlocks, second man of the Broken Arrow ; 

 and Enautaleche, nephew to the head man of the Swaglos. 



Mounds. — We are indebted to a gentleman of Hancock for 

 the following account of some remarkable mounds in this 

 county: 



" The principal mound is located in a second bottom, some 

 400 feet north of the centre prong of Shoulder Bone creek, a 

 tributary of the Oconee, and some 12 or 15 miles from its 

 mouth. I should suppose the base of the mound 20 feet above 

 the level of the creek. The mound, a few years ago, was 37 

 feet high, and covered at least 5,800 square yards of surface, 

 and in its form semi-oval, or the segment of a circle of some- 

 thing like 2,000 feet. Around this, though not equidistant 

 from the mound, are the remains of a ditch or entrenchment, 

 containing about four acres, nearly square, and one side was 

 more or less picketed, or zigzag in its course. I should sup- 

 pose this excavation was some 10 or 12 feet wide, and how 

 deep 1 cannot tell, as it was all in cultivation and filling up 

 when I first saw it. In the line nearest to the mound, some 

 40 feet east, was a very large excavation not yet filled up. 

 Whether that was made to get earth to make the mound, or a 

 reservoir for water, is conjectural. Near the mound, in the 

 enclosure, is a smaller excavation, some 60 feet in diameter, 

 from which a very large amount of human bones have been 

 exhumed, both before and since I took possession of the land, 

 and human bones have been ploughed up and washed up in other 

 places of the enclosure, though none that I have heard of out- 

 side. There were, and are now, the fragments of much broken, 

 rude earthenware, and one of the jars, unbroken, is now in 

 my possession. Also, rude beads, one musket barrel, and my 

 hands within the last 10 years found a round iron ball, about 

 1^ inches in diameter, about 300 feet from the large mound, 

 near the spring in the neighbourhood. In the edge of the 

 first bottom is another mound, not so large, a compound 

 of clay and sand. When the country was first settled, the 

 surrounding hills and valleys were pretty much covered 



