NORTH AM ERIC A o 
CHAP. VI, 
Language and Manners. 
The Mufcogulge language is fpoken throughout 
the confederacy, (although confiding of many na- 
tions, who have a fpeech peculiar to themfelves) as 
alfo by their friends and allies, the Natches. The 
Chicaiaw and Chaclaw, the Mufcoguiges fay are 
diale&s of theirs. 
This language is very agreeable to the ear, cour- 
teous, gentle and mufical : the letter R is not 
founded in one word of their language : the women 
in particular fpeak fo fine and mufical, as to repre- 
fent the fingirig of birds ; and when heard and not 
feen, one might imagine it to be the prattling of 
young children. The men's fpeech is indeed more 
firong and fonorous, but not harm, and in no in- 
ftance gu tural, and I believe the letter R is not 
ufed to e prefs any word, in any language of the 
confederacy. 
The Cherokee tongue, on the contrary, is very 
loud, fomewhat rough, and very fonorous, found- 
ing the letter R frequently, yet very agreeable and 
pleafant to the ear. All the Indian languages are 
truly rhetorical, or figurative, affifting their fpeech 
by tropes ; their hands, flexure of the head, the 
brow, in fhort, every member, naturally affociate, 
and give their afTiilance to render their harangues 
eloquent, perfuafive and effectual. 
The pyramidal hills or artificial mounts, and 
high-ways, or avenues, leading from them to ar- 
tifical lakes or ponds, van: tetragon terraces, 
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