NORTH AMERICA, 
Vale of Cowe, exhibiting one of the mod charming 
natural mountaneous landfcapes perhaps any where 
to be feen ; ridges of hills rifing grand and fublimely 
one above and beyond another, fome boldly and 
majeftically advancing into the verdant plain, their 
feet bathed with the filver flood of the Tanafe, 
whilft others far diftant, veiled in blue mifts, fub- 
limely mounting aloft, with yet greater ntajefty lift 
up their pompous crefls, and overlook vaft re-* 
gions. 
The vale is clofed at Cowe by a ridge of mighty 
hills, called the Jore mountain, faid to be the higheft 
land in the Cherokee country r which crofles the 
Tanafe here. 
On my arrival at this town I waited on the gen- 
tlemen to whom I was recommended by letter, and 
was received with refpect and every demonftration of 
hofpitality and friendlhip. 
I took my refidence with Mr. Calahan the 
chief trader here, an ancient refpe&able man, who 
had been many years a trader in this country, and 
is efteemed and beloved by the Indians for his hu- 
manity, probity and equitable dealings with them ; 
which, to be juft and candid I am obliged to ob- 
ferve (and blufh for my countrymen at the recital) 
is fomewhat of a prodigy ; as it is a fact, I am 
afraid too true, that the white traders in their com- 
merce with the Indians, get great and frequent oc- 
cafions of complaint of their difhonefty and vio- 
lence : but yet there are few exceptions, as in the 
conduct of this gentleman, who furnifhes a living 
inftance of the truth of the old proverb, that " Ho- 
nefty is the beft policy for this old honeft Hiber- 
nian has often been protected by the Indians, when 
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