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tuic and well proportioned, are enemies of tlic wliitcs and of they have always been peaceable and friendly. The other 

 all olKcr Indian nations, and commit depredations from the nations on the Miffifippi, higher up, are but little known to 



Illinois to the Arkanfas. The trade of this nation is faid 

 to be under an cxclnfive grant. They are a cruel and fero- 

 cious race, and are hated and feared by all the other Indians. 

 The confluence of the Ofage river with the Midbini is about 

 eight leagues from the MilTifippi. Sixty le.igucs higher up 



us. The Sac and Fox nations of India iiave ceded to the 

 United States a valuable country, with a front of 600 miles 

 on the Mifiiilppi. It contains 80,000 fqnare miles, and is 

 equal to 5 1,200,000 acres. The treaty ceding tiiis territory, 

 was ligncd at St. Louis, the 3d of Nov. The nation of 

 the MifTouri, and on the fame bank, is the river Kanzas, and the Miflburi, though cruel, treacherous, and infolent, may 

 on it the nation of th"e fame name, but at about 70 or 80 doubtkfs be kept in order by the United States, if proper 

 leagues from its mouth. It confills of about 250 warriors, regulations are adopted with refpeft to them. It is faid, 

 who are as fierce and cruel as the Ofages, and often moled and that no treaties have been entered into by Spain witli the 

 ill treat thofe who go to trade among them. Sixty leagues Indian nai ions weft ward of the Miffifippi, and that its treaties 

 above the river Kan/.as, and at about 200 from the mouth of with the Creeks, Chodlaws, &c. are in efTcdl fuperfeded by 

 the MilFouri, ftill oirthe right bank, is the Rivierrc Platte, or our treaty with that power of the 27th OiElober 1795. 

 Shallow river, remarkable for its qr.ickfands and bad navi- The produftions of Louifiana are iugar, cotton, indigo, 

 gation ; and near its confluence with the Midburi dwells the rice, furs, and peltry, lumber, tar, pitch, lead, flour, 

 r.ation of Oftolados, commonly called Otos, confifting of horfes, and cattle. The foil is fertile, the climate falu- 

 abo'.it 200- warriors, among whom are 25 or 30 of the nation brious, and the means of communication between mod parts 

 of MilFouri, who took refuge among them about 2^ years of the province certain, and by water. The exports of 

 iincc. Forty leagues up the river^Platte you come to the Louiliana amount in value to 2,158,000 dollars ; and the iin- 

 nation of Pani-!, comp-ifcd of about 700 warriors in four ports, in merchandize, plantation utenfils. Haves, &c. amount 

 neighbouring villages ; they hunt but little^n.d are ill pro- to 2\ millions, the difl'erence being made up by the money 

 vided v.'ith lire arms ; they often make war mi the Spaniards introduced by thegovernment, to pay the expences of govern- 

 In the neighbourhood of Sante Fc, from wliicli they are not ing and proteding the colony. The imports to the- United 

 far diilant. At 300 leagues from the MiRifippi, and 100 States from Louifiana and the Floridas amounted in 1802 to 

 From the river Platte on the fame banks, are fituated the 1,006,214 dollars, and the exports to Louifiana and the Flo- 

 villages of the Mahas. They conli lied, in 1799, ef 500 war- ridas in the fame year to 1, 2 24,7 10 dollars. In Louifiana there 

 riors, but are faid to have been almoft cut off lall year by the are few domeflic manufaftures. The Acadians nianufac- 

 fmall-pox. x\t 50 leagues above the Mahas, and on the ture a little cotton into quilts and cottonadcs, and in the 

 left bank of the MilTouri, dwell the Poncas, to tin- number of remoter parts of the province, the poorer planters fpin and 

 250 warriors, poffefriiig in common with the Mahas, their weave fome negro cloths of cotton and wool mixed. In the 

 l^vngnage, ferocity, and vices. Their trade has never been of city, belides the trades which are abfohitely neccflary, there 

 much value, and thofe engiged in it are expofed to pillage is a confiderab e manufafture of cordage, and four fmall 

 and ill treatment. At the diiiance of 450 leagues from the ones of fliot snd hair powtler ; and within a few leagues of 

 ZvIifTifippi, and on the right bank of the Mifl'ouri, dwell the the town are twelve dillilleries for making taflia, which are 

 Aricaras, to the number of 700 warriors, and 60 leagues laid to dillil annually a confiderable quantity, §nd one fugar 

 above them, the Mandane nation, confifting of about 700 • refinery, which is, faid to make about 2CO,oonibs. of loaf fngar. 

 warriors likewife. Thcfe two laft nations ate well difpofed There are no colleges, and but one public fchool, which is 



to the whites, but have been the victims of the Sioux, or 

 Mandowelues, who being themfelves well provided with fire- 

 arms, have taken advantage of the dcfeiicelefs fituation of 

 the others, and have on all occafions murdered them without 

 mercy. No difcoveries on the MifliDuri, beyond the Man- 

 dane nation, have been accurately detaik'd, though the 

 traders have been informed, that many navigable rivers dif- 

 charge their waters into it, above it, and that there are 



at New Orleans. There are a few private fchools for chil- 

 dren. Not more than half of the inhabitants are able to 

 read and write. In general the learning of the inhabit- 

 ants does not extend beyond thofe two arts ; though thcv 

 feem to be endowed with a good natural genius, and a gocd 

 and an uncommon facility of learning whatever they under- 

 take. The clergy confills of a bifnop, who does not refide 

 in the province, whofe falary of 4000 dollars is charged on 



many numerous nations fettled on them. The Sioux, or the revenue of certain biflioprics in Mexico and Cuba ; two 



Mandoweffies, who frequent the country between the N. canon-', and 25 curates, receive each from 360 to 480 dollars 



bank of the Milfouri and Miffilippi^ are a jreat impedi- a-year. At Orleans there is a convent of Urfulines, to 



ment to trade and navigation. They endeavour to prevent .which is attached about 1000 gcres of land. Raynal, Jef- 



all communication with the nations higher up the M.fT.iuri, ferfon, Morfe. 



to deprive them of ammunition and arms, and thus keep LOUiSTOWN, a town of America, in Talbot county, 



them fubfervient to themfelves. In the winter they are chiefly Maryland, on the W. fide of Tuckahoe creek ; four miles 



on the banks of the Miflburi, and maffacre all who fall into 

 their hands. Tiiere are a number of nations at a diiiance 

 from the banks of the Mifl"ouri, to the N. and S. c-mcermng 

 wliom but little information has been received. Returning 



N. of King's-towi 



LOUISVILLE, a port of entry, poft-town of Ken- 

 tucky, and capital of Jefl"erfon county, pleafantly fituated 

 on thj Lft fide of the Ohio, on an elevated plain abovethe Ra- 



to the MifTilippi, and afcending it from the Miflouri, about pid', nearly oppofite to Fort Fenny. It commands a delightful 



7) leagues above the mouth of the latter, the river Moin- 

 guna, or Riviere de Moine, enters the Miflifippi on the v.-eft 

 Tide, and on it are fituated the Ayoas, a n.ition oriijinally 

 •from the Mitlburi, fper.king the language of the Otacha- 

 t.is ; it conllfted of 200 warrior:: before the f.mall-pox lately 

 raged among them. The Saes and . Renards dv.'ell oa the 

 Mirfilippi, about 300 leagues above St. Louis, and frequently 

 trade with it.; they live together, and confided of 500 

 warriors : their chief trade is with Michlhmakinack, and 



profpeft, b'jt the ftagnatcd waters behind it render it un- 

 healthy. It coniifts of three principal ftreets, and contains 

 about 100 houfes, 3 jo inhabitants, a court-houfc,and gaol ; 

 40 miles W. of Frankfort. —Alio, the prefent feat of go- 

 vernment in Georgia, fituated in .leffcrfon county, in the 

 lovv-er didrift of the Hate, on the N.E. bank of the Great 

 Ogeechee river, 70 miles from its mouth. It contains a 

 llate-houfe, a tobacco warehoufe, and upwards of forty 

 dwelling houfes. In the vicinity is fituated a libera'ly en- 

 dowed 



