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has no inhabitants but the beasts of the wilderness ; for the Indians are not 

 inclinable to settle on the richest land because the timbers are too large for 

 them to cut down, and too much burdened with wood for their laborers to make 

 plantations of. 



Recently, a search through old atlases was made to gather informa- 

 tion regarding the old "Trading Path of the Occaneechi," Jefferys 

 (Jeffrys) in "The American Atlas or a Geographical Description of 

 the Whole Continent of America, etc., 1775," gave some very interest- 

 ing information. On a map drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jeffer- 



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Surreyar Ck^nerat <yf /V C. 



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Map 5. — ^John Lawson's map of 1709 indicating "Aconeche Island" on the Maratock River. 

 (From Hawks' History of North Carolina, 1858.) 



