156 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
Location of boundaries.—In the location of the boundary points be- 
tween the Cherokees and whites, recited in the fourth article of the 
treaty, it is proper to remark that — 
1. The route of the line along the ridge between Cumberland and 
Tennessee Rivers, and from thence to the Cumberland, at a point 40 
miles above Nashville, has already been recited. 
2. “The ford where the Kentucky road crosses the river” (Cumber- 
land) is at a point opposite the mouth of Left-Hand Fork, about 12 or 
13 miles slightly west of north of Cumberland Gap. From the point 
“40 miles above Nashville” to this ford, the commissioners adopted, 
as they declare, the line of Henderson’s Purchase; while from the “ Ken- 
tucky Ford” to the mountain, 6 miles south of the mouth of Camp 
Creek on Nolichucky, they followed the boundary prescribed by the 
treaty of July 20, 1777, with Virginia and North Carolina.! 
3. “Campbell’s line” was surveyed in 177778 by General William 
Campbell, as a commissioner for marking the boundary between Vir- 
ginia and the Cherokees. It extended from the mouth of Big Creek to 
the high knob on Poor Valley Ridge, 332 poles 8. 70° E. of the sum- 
mit of the main ridge of Cumberland Mountain, a short distance west 
of Cumberland Gap.2 The point at which the treaty line of 1785 struck 
Campbell’s line was at the Kentucky road crossing, about 14 miles south- 
east of Cumberland Gap. 
4, The treaty line followed Campbell’s line until it reached a point 
due north of the mouth of Cloud’s Creek. From this point it ran south 
to the mouth of that creek, which enters the Holston from the north, 3 
miles west of Rogersville. 
5. The line from Cloud’s Creek pursued a northeasterly direction to 
Chimney Top Mountain, which it struck at a point about 2 miles to 
the southward of the Long Island of Holston River. 
6. “Camp Creek, near the mouth of Big Limestone, on the Noli- 
chucky ” (which is the next point in the boundary line), is a south branch 
of Nolichucky River in Greene County, Tennessee, between Horse and 
Cove Creeks, and empties about 6 miles southeast of Greeneville. It 
was sometimes called McNamee’s Oreek. 
7. The mountain “six miles to the southward of Camp Creek” was 
in the Great Smoky or Iron Range, not far from the head of that creek. 
8. “Thence south to the North Carolina line, thence to the South 
Carolina Indian boundary.” This line was partially surveyed in the 
winter of 1791, by Joseph Hardin, under the direction of Governor 
Blount.’ It ran southeasterly from the mouth of McNamee’s or Camp 
' Report of Treaty Commissioners in American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, 
p. 38. 
*Letter of Return J. Meigs to Secretary of War, May 5, 1803; also, letter of Hon. 
John M. Lea, Nashville, Tennessee. 
‘Letter of Governor Blount to Secretary of War, December 16, 1792, in American 
State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 631. 
