NORTH AMERICA* 
is a moderate computation, would give eleven 
thoufand inhabitants. 
It appears to me pretty clearly, from divers 
circumftances, that this powerful empire or con- 
federacy of the Creeks or Mufcogulges, arofe 
from, and eftablifhed itfelf upon, the ruins of 
that of the Natches, agreeably to monfieur Du- 
prat. According to the Mufcogulges account of 
themfelves, they arrived from the South-Weft, 
beyond the Miiliffippi, fome time before the Eng- 
lim fettled the colony of Carolina, and built Char- 
leflon ; and their ftory concerning their country 
and people, from whence they fprang, the caufe of 
leaving their native land, the progrefs of their mi- 
gration, &c. is very fimilar to that celebrated 
hiftorian's account of the Natches. They might 
"'have been included as allies and confederates in that 
vaft and powerful empire of red men. The Muf- 
cogulges gradually puihing and extending their fet- 
tlements on their North-Eaft border, until the dif- 
folution of the Natches empire ; being then the 
mod numerous, warlike and powerful tribe, they 
began to fubjugate the various tribes or bands 
which formerly conftituted the Natches, and unit- 
ing them with themfelves, formed a new confede- 
racy under the name of the Mufcogulges. 
The Mufcogulge tongue is now the national or 
fovereign language : thole of the Chicafaws, Chac- 
taws and even the remains of the Natches, if we 
are to credit the Creeks and traders, being dialecb 
of the Mufcogulge :~ and probably, when the 
Natches were fovereigns, they called their own the 
national tongue, and the Creeks, Chicafaws, &c. 
only dialects of theirs. It is uncertain which is 
reallv them other tongue. 
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