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one of the rivers of South Carolina, since whicli, 

 for some dislike, most of them are removed to 

 live in the quarters of the Iroquois or Sinnagars, 

 which are on the heads of the rivers that disgorge 

 themselves into the bay of Chesapeak. I once met 

 with a young Indian woman that had been brought 

 from beyond the mountains, and was sold a slave 

 into Virginia. She spoke the same language as 

 the Coramme Indians, that dwell near Cape Look- 

 out, allowing for some few words, which were dif- 

 ferent, yet no otherwise than that they might un- 

 derstand one another very well. 



The Indians of ]S"orth Carolina are a well shaped 

 clean made people, of different statures, as the 

 Europeans are, yet chiefly inclined to be tall. 

 They are a very straight people, and never bend 

 forwards or stoop in the shoulders, unless much 

 overpowered by old age. Their limbs are exceed- 

 ing well shaped. As for their legs and feet, they 

 are generally the handsomest in the world. Their 

 bodies are a- little flat, which is occasioned by be- 

 ing laced hard down to a board in their infancy. 

 This is all the cradle they have, which I shall de- 

 scribe at large elsewhere. Their eyes are black, 

 or of a dark hazel ; the white is marbled with red 

 streaks, which is ever common to these people, 

 unless when sprung from a white father or mother. 

 TheiT color is of a tawny, which would not be so 

 dark did they not dawb themselves with bear's oil, 

 and a color like burnt cork. This is begun in 

 their infancy and continued for a long time, which- 



