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wars with the northern tribes, and with white people, have 

 greatly reduced their numbers. They are said to have had 

 two thousand five hundred warriors, but they are now esti- 

 mated at one thousand five hundred. They have about forty- 

 five towns in which they reside when they are not engaged 

 in hunting or war excursions. They are a tall, robust, and 

 well formed people, of a lighter complexion than the neigh- 

 bouring Indian nations. The men are very generally six 

 feet in height. The women are also tall and of an handsome 

 figure, rather slender and delicate. This nation has been 

 much celebrated for their talents and correct morals. 



The Chickasaws reside in the Mississippi Territory, on 

 the Yazoo river, and westward of the Tennessee river, as far 

 north as the Ohio, of and down the Ohio and Mississippi, to 

 theChactaw line of Natchez district. The boundary of the 

 lands allotted to this nation is particularly described in the 

 treaty of Hopewell on the 10th of January, 1786. Their 

 country lies north of the Chactaw nation, and is very much 

 an extended plain with little rising land. It is well watered 

 and the soil generally good. They reside in about seven 

 or eight towns and had formerly five hundred and seventy- 

 five warriors, and seventeen hundred and twenty -five souls- 



The Chactaws, a powerful, subtle, hardy, Indian nation, 

 reside between the Tombigby and Mississippi rivers. The 

 limits of the country, within the United States on which 

 this nation is to live and hunt, was particularly stipulated 

 at the treaty of Hopewell, on the 3d of January, 1786. Their 

 ■Country is hilly, with extensive, fertile plains intervening 

 between the high lands. Unlike most of the Indian nations 

 they have paid considerable attention to husbandry. Some 

 of them have large farms, in a good state of culture, and 

 many of them spend much of their time in agricultural im- 

 provements. Although they do not possess one quarter 

 part of the quantity of land which the Creek nation occupies, 

 their number of people is more than two thirds as large as 

 the Creek confederacy. Many years ago they had forty-three 

 towns and villages, containing 4,041 warriors, and 12,123 

 souls. Since that time they are supposed to have consider- 



