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not now to be found east of the Mississippi. Elk or moose are seen 

 in many places, chiefly among the mountains. The deer are become 

 comparatively scarce, so that no person makes a business of hunting 

 them for their skins only. Enough of bears and wolves yet remain. 

 Beavers and otters are caught in plenty in the upper branches of 

 Cumberland and Kentucky rivers. 



Curiosities. ...The Enchanted Mountain, about two miles south of 

 Brass-town, is famed for the curiosities on its rocks. There are, in 

 several rocks, a number of impressions resembling the tracks pf 

 turkeys, bears, horses, and human beings, as visible and perfect as 

 they could be made in snow or sand. The latter were remarkable 

 for having uniformly six toes each, one only excepted, which appear- 

 ed to be the print oi a negro's foot. One of these tracts was very 

 large ; the length of the feet sixteen inches, the distance of the ex- 

 tremities of the outer toes thirteen inches. One of the horse tracts 

 was of an uncommon size. The transverse and conjugate diameters 

 were eight by ten inches ; perhaps the horse which the great warrior 

 rode. What appears most in favour of their being the real tracts of 

 the animals they represent, is the circumstance of the horse's feet 

 having slipt several inches, and recovered again, and the figures 

 having all the same direction, like the trail of a company on a jour- 

 ney. If it be a lusus natures, the old dame never sported more seri- 

 ously : if the operation of chance, perhaps there was never more 

 apparent design. If it be the work of art, it may be intended to per- 

 petuate the remembrance of some remarkable event of war, or some 

 battle fought there. The vast heaps of stones near the place, said to 

 be tombs of warriors slain in battle, seem to favour the latter supposi- 

 tion. The texture of the rocks is soft : the part on which the sun had 

 the greatest influence, and which was the most indurated, could easily 

 be cut with a knife, and appeared to be of the nature of the pipe-stone. 

 Some of the Cherokees entertain an opinion that it always rains when 

 any person visits the place, as if sympathetic nature wept at the re- 

 collection of the dreadful catastrophe which these figures were in- 

 tended to commemorate. 



Population and militia... .The population of this state in No- 

 vember 1795, was estimated at 77,262. By the census taken in 1800, 

 it was found to have increased to 105,602, including 13,584 slaves. In 

 1810, the population was 261,727, including 44,535 slaves. The mi- 

 litia is about 16,000. 



Chiep towns. ...Knoxville is the seat of government in Tennessee. 

 It is regularly laid out, in a flourishing situation, and enjoys a com- 

 munication with every part of the United States by post. It contains 

 about 200 houses. The other principal towns are Nashville and Jones- 

 borough. 



Trade... This country furnishes many valuable articles of export, 

 such as fine waggon and saddle horses, beef, cattle, ginseng, deer- 

 skins, and furs, cotton, hemp, and flax, which may be transported by 

 land ; also iron, lumber, pork, and flour, which are exported to New 

 Orleans. 



Government. ...In 1785, in conformity to the resolves of congress, 

 of April 23, 1784, the inhabitants of this district attempted to form 

 themselves into a body politic by the name of the State of Frankland ; 

 but differing among themselves, as to the form of government, and 

 other matters, in the issue of which some blood was shed, and being 

 opposed by some leading persons in the eastern parts, the scheme 



