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to thirty, and some of the largest from one hundred and 

 fifty to two hundred houses. The towns are all built com- 

 pact. The houses stand in clusters of 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 to- 

 gether, irregularly arranged up and down the banks of the 

 rivers and small streams. Each cluster contains a clan, or 

 family of relations, who eat and live in common. Each town 

 has a public square, hot-house and yard near the centre, 

 appropriated to various public uses. General M'Gillivra, 

 estimated the number of warriors to be about six thousand 

 exclusive of the Seminoles, who are considered of little ac- 

 count in war. From their roving manner of living it is im- 

 possible to ascertain the number of Creek Indians with 

 much precision. They probably may have about 26,000 

 souls. 



The land which thay claim as their country is a common 

 stock ; and any individual may remove from one part of it 

 to another, and occupy vacant ground where he can find it. 

 They have considered their boundary northward, to be 

 somewhere about the forty-second degree of north latitude 

 (as it has been found by surveyers), extending westward to 

 the Tombigby river, and eastward to the atlantic ocean . 

 but they have ceded parts of this tract on the sea coast, long 

 ago, by different treaties to the State of Georgia. Their 

 country is hilly, but not mountainous ; the soil fertile ; 

 abounding with creeks, from whence they are probably called 

 the Creek Indians. They have been very desirous to agree 

 with the United States on a permanent boundary line, over 

 which the southern States should not trespass. In August 

 1790, the United States concluded a treaty with the Kings, 

 chiefs and warriors, of the Creek nation, at New-York. By 

 this treaty the boundary line was to begin where the old 

 line strikes the River Savannah ; thence up the river to a 

 place called Keowee, where a northeast line to be drawn 

 from the top of the Occunna mountain shall intersect ; 

 thence along the said line in a southwest direction, to Tugelo 

 river ; thence to the top of the Currahee mountain ; thence 

 to the head or source of the main south branch of the Oconee 

 river, called the Appalachee ; thence down the said branch 



