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and River Oconee, to its confluence with the Oakmulgee, 

 which form the River Altamaha to the old line, and thencre 

 along- the old line to the River Saint Mary. The United 

 States were, from time to time, to furnish the Creek nation 

 gratuitously with useful domestic animals and implements 

 of husbandry. A subsequent treaty was concluded, at Cole- 

 ruin, in June 1796, confirming- the former treaty, providing 

 that the boundary line from the Currahee mountain, should 

 be clearly ascertained and marked, and stipulating to give 

 to the said nation, goods to the value of 6,000 dollars, and 

 to send two black smiths, with strikers and necessary tools, 

 to be employed for the Upper and Lower Creeks. 



Considerable improvements have been made by these 

 people in agriculture, but they have been extremely deficient 

 in their implements of husbandry. A very large part of the 

 nation being devoted to hunting in the winter, and to war 

 or idleness in the summer, they cultivate only small tracts 

 of land which are barely sufficient to afford them sustenance. 

 Some, who possess numbers of negroes, have fenced fields ; 

 but having no ploughs, they are obliged to break' up, and 

 cultivate the ground with hoes. The seed is scattered over 

 the ground promiscuously, and not planted in^ rows. The 

 articles they cultivate, are tobacco, rice, Indian corn, pota- 

 toes, beans, peas, cabbage and melons. Such fruits as 

 peaches, plumbs, grapes, and strawberries, they have in 

 great plenty. They raise great numbers of horses, cattle 

 and hogs, and abound in turkies, ducks and other poultry. 

 They manufacture earth ern pots and pans, baskets, horse 

 ropes or halters, smoaked leather, black marble pipes, 

 wooden spoons, and oil from acorns, hickory nuts and 

 ehesnuts. 



The Creeks are not disposed to have much intercourse 

 with white people, especially foreigners, except with the 

 English. Their prejudice is strong in favour of that nation, 

 and they still believe " the Great King over the water" is 

 able to keep the whole world in subjection. They have a 

 particular fondness for British guns, drums, and other arti- 

 cles manufactured by the English people. 



