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Figure 2. — Plan of Creek ceremonial ground as given by Wm. Bartram. 

 B, tcokofa or town "hot house" ; C, chunk yard. 



A, Square Ground ; 



a row of 25 posts flush with the front of the bed nearest the wall, a row 

 of 14 along the front edge of the lowest bed, the one nearest the cen- 

 ter of the building, and a row of 8 in the open space in front of these 

 surrounding a central pillar. It is not likely that Bartram counted 

 all of the posts in each row. The 8 in the inner row very likely 

 represent the result of an exact computation, but it is quite possible 

 that the number in each of the other rows was also divisible by 4, 

 perhaps 16 in one case and 24 in the other. But it is not necessary 

 that the sacred number 4 be carried into the less conspicuous details 

 of the structure. 



In a letter written at Camp Armstrong, Chatahoocha, November 

 26, 1813, an officer in Floyd's army thus describes the square and hot 

 house of a Lower Creek town, probably Kasihta or Coweta : 



These people have great ideas of grandnre they have at this place a small fort 

 built of poles which a strong man could pull up, in this fort is their square where 

 they hold talks there are four houses fronting each other the front open something 

 like a piasar where the chiefs set agreeable to rank, in these houses are deposited 



