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ful and friendly, and they move with a becoming 
grace and dignity. 
The Mufcogulge women, though remarkably 
fhort of ftature, are well formed ; their vifage 
round, features regular and beautiful ; the brow" 
high and arched ; the eye large, black and lan- 
guishing, expreffive of modefty, diffidence, and 
baihfulnefs ; thefe charms are their defenfive and 
offenfive weapons, and they know very well how 
to play them oif, and under cover of thefe alluring 
graces, are concealed the mod fubtile artifice ; 
they are however loving and affectionate : they 
are, I believe, the fmalleit race of women yet 
known, feldom above five feet high, and I believe 
the greater number never arrive to that ftature ; 
their hands and feet not larger than thofe of Eu- 
ropeans of nine or ten years of age : yet the men 
are of gigantic ftature, a full fize larger than Eu- 
ropeans : many of them above fix feet, and few 
under that, or five feet eight or ten inches. Their 
complexion much darker than any of the tribes to 
the North of them that I have feen. This defcrip- 
tion will I believe comprehend the Mufcogulges, 
their confederates, the Chaclaws, and 1 believe the 
Chicafaws) though I have never feen their women), 
excepting however fome bands of the Siminoles, 
Uches and Savannucas, who are rather taller and 
flenderer, and their complexion brighter. 
The Cherokees are yet taller and more robufl 
than the Mufcogulges, and by far the largeft race 
of men I have feen* ; their complexions brighter 
* There are, however, fome exceptions to this general obfervation, as I 
have myfelf witneffed. Their prefent grand chief or emperor (the Little 
Carpenter, Atta-kul-kulla) is a man of remarkably fmall ftature, flender, 
and of a delicate frame, the only inflance I faw in the nation : but he is a 
man of fuperior abilities. 
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