TRAVELS IN 
feveral lefs ones round about the great one, with 
fome very large tetragon terraces on each fide, near 
one hundred yards in length, and their furface four,, 
fix, eight and ten feet above the ground on which 
they Itand. 
We may however hazard a conjecture ; that as 
there is generally a narrow fpace or ric|ge in thefe 
low lands, immediately bordering on the river's 
bankj which is, eight or ten feet higher than the ad- 
joining low grounds, that lie betwixt the dream and 
the heights of the adjacent main land, which, when 
the river overflows its banks, are many feet under 
water, when, at the fame time, this ridge on the 
river bank is above water and dry, and at fuch in- 
undations appears as an illand in the river ; thefe 
people might have had a town on this ridge, and 
this mount raifed for a retreat and refuge in cafe of 
inundations, which are unforefeen and furprize then* 
very fuddenly, fpring and autumn. 
Having finiflied my collections and obfervations, 
which were extended to a considerable diftance in 
the environs of Dartmouth; May ioth fat off 
again, proceeding for Keowe ; rode fix or eight 
miles up the river above the fort ; crofled over into 
Carolina and foon got into the high road ; but had 
not proceeded far, when I was furprifed by afudden 
very heavy (hower of rain, attended with terrific 
jli under, but luckily found prefent Shelter at a farm 
iioufe, where I continued above an hour before 
its fury abated ; when I proceeded again, and not- 
withstanding this detention and obftacles in confe- 
quence of the heavy rains in raifing the creeks, tra- 
velled thirty five miles, and arrived injtie evening 
at Mr. Cameron's, deputy commiffary for Indian 
affairs for the Cherokee nation, to whom I was re- 
commended 
