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Chattahoochee. Maps representing the location of tribes at that 
time give the Kasihta under the name Gitasee. This is made evi- 
dent when we come to compare early and late maps, which are 
found to agree in nearly all particulars except that some variant of 
the name Kasihta is substituted for Gitasee. The reason for the 
use of Gitasee is entirely unknown. As laid down on these maps the 
Kasihta were between the Okmulgee on the south and a body of 
Tuskegee on the north. In the census list of 1761 they were assigned 
to John Rae as trader. 1 In January, 1778, Bartram passed this town, 
which he calls "Usseta," and he says that it joined Chiaha, but that 
the two spoke radically different languages. 2 The traders located 
there in 1797 were Thomas Carr and John Anthony Sandoval, the 
latter a Spaniard. 3 Hawkins gives the following description of Ka- 
sihta as it was in 1799, which shows incidentally that the town had 
been moved once after it was located on the river: 
Cus-se-tuh; this town is two and a half miles below Cow-e-tuh Tal-lau-has-see, on 
the left bank of the river. They claim the land above the falls on their side. In 
descending the river path from the falls in three miles you cross a creek running to 
the right, twenty feet wide ; this creek joins the river a quarter of a mile above the 
Cowetuh town house; the land to this creek is good and level and extends back from 
the river from half to three-quarters of a mile to the pine forest; the growth on the 
level is oak, hickory, and pine; there are some ponds and slashes back next to the 
pine forest, bordering on a branch which runs parallel with the river; in the pine 
forest there is some reedy branches. 
The creek has its source nearly twenty miles from the river, and runs nearly paral- 
lel with it till within one mile of its junction ; there it makes a short bend round north, 
thence west to the river; at the second bend, about two hundred yards from the river, 
a fine little spring creek joins on its right bank. . . . 
The flat of good land on the river continues two and a half miles below this creek, 
through the Cussetuh fields to Hat-che-thluc-co. At the entrance of the fields on 
the right there is an oblong mound of earth; one-quarter of a mile lower there is a 
conic mound forty-five yards in diameter at the base, twenty-five feet high, and flat 
on the top, with mulberry trees on the north side and evergreens on the south. From 
the top of this mound they have a fine view of the river above the flat land on both 
sides of the river, and all the field of one thousand acres; 4 the river makes a short 
bend round to the right opposite this mound, and there is a good ford just below 
the point. It is not easy to mistake the ford, as there is a flat on the left, of gravel 
and sand; the waters roll rapidly over the gravel, and the eye, at the first view, 
fixes on the most fordable part; there are two other fords below this, which communi- 
cate between the fields on both sides of the river; the river from this point comes round 
to the west, then to the east; the island ford is below this turn, at the lower end of a 
small island; from the left side, enter the river forty yards below the island, and 
go up to the point of it, then turn down as the ripple directs, and land sixty yards 
below; this is the best ford; the third is still lower, from four to six hundred yards. 
The land back from the fields to the east rises twenty feet and continues flat for 
one mile to the pine forest; back of the fields, adjoining the rise of twenty feet, is a 
beaver pond of forty acres, capable of being drained at a small expense of labor; the 
large creek bounds the fields and the flat land to the south. 
i Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 522. 3 c,a. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 171. 
s Bartram, Travels, p. 456. « The Lib. Cong. MS. has "100 acres." 
