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(head of a creek). The land is broken with hickory, pine, and chestnut; there is cane 
on the borders of the creek and reed on the branches; there are some settlements of 
Cowetuh people made on these creeks; all who have settled out from the town have 
fenced their fields and begin to be attentive to their stock. 
The town has a temporary fence of three poles, the first on forks, the other two on 
stakes, good against cattle only; the town fields are fenced in like manner; a few of 
the neighboring fields, detached from the town, have good fences; the temporary, 
three pole fences of the town are made every spring, or repaired in a slovenly manner. 
Cow-e-tuh Tal-lau-has-see; from Cow-e-tuh, Tal-lo-fau, a town, and hasse, old. 
It is two and a half miles below Cowetuh, on the right bank of the river. In going 
down the path between the two towns, in half a mile cross Kotes-ke-le-jau, ten feet 
wide, running to the left is a fine little creek sufficiently large for a mill, in all but the 
dry seasons. On the right bank enter the flat lands between the towns. These are good, 
with oak, hard-shelled hickory and pine: they extend two miles to Che-luc-in-ti-ge- 
tuh, a small creek five feet wide, bordering on the town. The town is half a mile 
from the river, on the right bank of the creek; it is on a high flat, bordered on the east 
by the flats of the river, and west by high broken hills; they have but a few settlers 
in the town; the fields are on a point of land three-quarters of a mile below the town, 
which is very rich and has been long under cultivation; they have no fence around 
their fields. 
Here is the public establishment for the Lower Creeks, and here the agent resides. 
He has a garden well cultivated and planted, with a great variety of vegetables, 
fruits, and vines, and an orchard of peach trees. Arrangements have been made to 
fence two hundred acres of land fit for cultivation, and to introduce a regular hus- 
bandry to serve as a model and stimulus, for the neighborhood towns who crowd the 
public shops here, at all seasons, when the hunters are not in the woods. 
The agent entertains doubts, already, of succeeding here in establishing a regular 
husbandry, from the difficulty of changing the old habits of indolence, and sitting daily 
in the squares, which seem peculiarly attractive to the residenters of the towns. 
In the event of not succeeding, he intends to move the establishment out from the 
town, and aid the villagers where success seems to be infallible. 
They estimate their number of gun men at one hundred; but the agent has ascer- 
tained, by actual enumeration, that they have but sixty-six, including all who reside 
here, and in the villages belonging to .the town. 
They have a fine body of land below, and adjoining the town, nearly two thousand 
acres, all well timbered; and including the whole above and below, they have more 
than is sufficient for the accommodation of the whole town; they have one village 
belonging to the town, We-tumcau. 
We-tum-cau; from We-wau, water; and tum-cau, rumbling. It is on the main 
branch of U-chee creek and is twelve miles northwest from the town. These people 
have a small town house on a poor pine ridge on the left bank of the creek below the 
falls; the settlers extend up the creek for three miles, and they cultivate the rich bends 
in the creek ; there is cane on the creek and fine reed on its branches ; the land higher 
up the creek, and on its branches is waving, with pine, oak, and hickory, fine for culti- 
vation, on the flats and out from the branches; the range is good for stock, and some of 
the settlers have cattle and hogs, and begin to be attentive to them; they have been 
advised to spread out their settlements on the waters of this creek, and to increase 
their attention to stock of every kind. 1 
The trader in 1797 was James Lovet. 2 Wetumpka is probably 
the Wituneara of the Popple map (pi. 4). 
The census of 1832 enumerated five bands of Coweta Indians, as 
follows: Koochkalecha town, 276 besides 12 slaves; on Toosilkstor- 
» Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., m, pp. 52-57. « Ibid., IX, p. 63. 
