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with oak, hickory, and pine. The branches all have reed; they have a fine ford at the 
upper end of the town; the river is one hundred and twenty yards wide. Some of the 
people have settled out from the town, and they have good land on Im-mook-fau 
Creek, which joins the right side of the river, two miles below the town. 1 
2d. Took-au-bat-che tal-lau-has-see; this village received in part a new name in 
1797, Tal-lo-wau moo-chas-see (new town). It is on the right bank of the river, 
four miles above New-yau-cau; 2 the land around it is broken and stony; off the 
river the hills are waving; and post oak, hard shelled hickory, pine, and on the ridges, 
chestnut is the growth. 
3d. Im-mook-fau (a gorget made of a conch). This village is four miles west from 
Tookaubatche [Tal-lauhas-see], on Immookfau Creek, which joins the right Bide of 
Tallapoosa, two miles below New-yau-cau. The settlers are from Chu-le-oc-who- 
cat-lau and Sooc-he-ah; they have fine rich flats on the creek, and good range for 
their cattle; they possess some hogs, cattle, and horses, and begin to be attentive 
to them. 
4th. Tooh-to-cau-gee, from tooh-to, a corn house, and cau-gee, fixed or standing. 3 
The Indians of Oc-fus-kee formerly built a corn house here for the convenience of 
their hunters and put their corn there for their support during the hunting season. 
It is on the right bank of Tallapoosa, twenty miles above New-yau-cau; 4 the settle- 
ments are on the narrow flat margins of the river on both sides. On the left side the 
mountains terminate here, the uplands are too poor and broken for cultivation; the 
path from E-tow-wah, in the Cherokee country, over the tops of these mountains, is a 
pretty good one. It winds down the mountains to this village; the river is here one 
hundred and twenty yards wide, a beautiful clear stream. On the right side, off from 
the river flats, the land is waving, with oak, hickory and pine, gravelly, and in some 
places large sheets of rock which wave as the land. The grit is coarse, but some of 
it is fit for mill stones; the land is good for corn, the trees are all small, with some 
chesnut on the ridges; the range is a good one for stock; reed is found on all the 
branches; on the path to New-yau-cau there is some large rock/, the vein lies south- 
west; they are in two rows parallel with each other and the land good in their neigh- 
borhood. 
5th. Au-che-nau-ul-gau; from Au-che-nau, cedar, and ul-gau, all; a cedar grove. 
These settlers are from Loo-chau-po-gau (the resort of terrapin). It is on a creek, 
near the old town, forty miles above New-yau-cau. This settlement is the farthest 
north of all the Creeks; the land is very broken in the neighborhood. West of this 
village, post and black oak, all small; the soil is dark and stiff with coarse gravel 
and in some places stone; from the color of the earth in places there must be iron ore; 
the streams from the glades form fine little creeks, branches of the Tallapoosa. The 
land on their borders is broken, stiff, stony and rich, affording fine mill seats, and on 
the whole it is a country where the Indians might have desirable settlements; the 
path from E-tow-woh to Hill-au-bee passes through these glades. 
6th. E-pe-sau-gee; this village is on a large creek which gives name to it and 
enters the Tallapoosa opposite Oc-fus-kee. The creek has its source in the ridge, 
dividing the waters of this river from Chat-to-ho-che; it is thirty yards wide and 
has a rocky bottom; they have forty settlers in the village, who have fenced their 
fields this season for the benefit of their stock, and they have all of them cattle, hogs, 
and horses. They have some good land on the creek, but generally it is broken, the 
i Near this town is Horse Shoe Bend, the scene of Jackson's decisive victory over the Creeks, March 27, 
1814. 
2 In notes taken in 1797 he says "6 miles."— Ga Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 170. 
' Jackson Lewis, one of the writer's informants, says it means "two corncribs," and this has the 
sanction of Hawkins (Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 33). It seems to be composed of tohto, corncrib, and 
kagi, to be or to set up. See Gatschet, Creek Mig. Leg., I, p. 14S. 
4 In notes taken in 1797 he says "15 miles."— Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 169. 
