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Marshall, John Tarvin, James Darouzeaux, Hardy Read, and Christian 
Russel, the last a Silcsian. 1 Adair enumerates Coweta as one of the 
sis principal towns of the Muskogee confederacy but does not mention 
Kasihta. 2 Hawkins furnishes the following accounts of Coweta, 
Coweta Tallahassee, and a branch of the latter known as Wetumpka, 
as they appeared in 1799: 
Cow-e-tuh, "ii the right bank of Chat-to-ho-che, three miles below the falls, on a 
Mat extending bark one mile. The land is fine for corn; the settlements extend up 
the river for two miles on the river flats. These are bordered with broken pine land; 
the fields of the settlers who reside in the town, are on a point of land formed by a 
bend of the river, a pari of them adjoining the point, are low, then a rise of fifteen 
feet, spreading back for half a mile, then another rise of fifteen feet, and flat a half 
mile to a swamp adjoining the highlands; the fields are below the town. 
The river is one hundred and twenty yards wide, with a deep steady current from 
t he fall ; these are over a rough coarse rock, forming some islands of rock, which force 
the water into two narrow channels, in time of low water. One is on each side of 
the river, in the whole about ninety feet wide; that on the right is sixty feet wide, 
with a perpendicular fall of twelve feet; the other of thirty feet wide, is a long sloping 
curve very rapid, the fall fifteen feet in one hundred and fifty feet; fish may ascend 
in this channel, but it is too swift and strong for boats; here are two fisheries; one on 
the right belongs to this town; that on the left, to the Cussetuhs; they are at the 
termination of the falls; and the fish are taken with scoop nets; the fish taken are the 
hickory shad, rock, trout, perch, catfish, and suckers; there is sturgeon in the river, 
but no white shad or herring; during spring and summer, they catch the perch and 
rock with hooks. As soon as the fish make their appearance, the chiefs send out the 
women, and make them fish for the square. This expression includes all the chiefs 
and warriors of the town. 
The land on the right bank of the river at the falls is a poor pine barren, to the 
water's edge; the pines are small; the falls continue three or four miles nearly of the 
same width, about one hundred and twenty yards; the river then expands to thrice 
that width, the bottom being gravelly, shoal and rocky. There are several small 
islands within this scope; one at the part where the expansion commences is rich 
and some part of it under cultivation; it is half a mile in length, but narrow; here the 
river is fordable; enter the left bank one hundred yards above the upper end of the 
island and cross over to it, and down to the fields, thence across the other channel; 
at the termination of the falls, a creek twenty feet wide, (O-cow-ocuh-hat-che, falls 
creek i. joins the right side of the river. Just below this creek, and above the last 
reef of rocks, is another ford. The current is rapid, and the bottom even. 
On the left bank of the river at the falls, the land is level; and in approaching them 
one is surprised to lind them where there is no alteration in the trees or unevenness 
of land. This level continues back one mile to the poor pine barren, and is fine for 
corn or cotton: the timber is red oak, hickory, and pine; the banks of the river on this 
side below the falls are fifty feet high, and continue so, down below the town house; 
the flat of good land continues still lower to Hat-che thluc-co (big creek). 
Ascending the river on this bank, above the falls, the following stages are noted in 
miles: 
L'i miles, the flat land terminates: thence 3$ miles, to Chis-se Hul-cuh running 
tn the left thence I miles, toChusse thluc-co twenty feet wide, a rocky bottom! 
5 miles to Ke-ta-le. thirty feet wide, a bold, shoally rocky creek, abounding in 
moss. Four miles up this creek there is a village of ten families at Hat-che Uxau 
1 1 1st. Soe. Colls., ix, pp. 170-171. i Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 257. 
