CONTENTS, 
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CHAP. IX. 
Short excurnon in the South of Georgia — makes collections— -gathers feed of 
two new and very curious ihrubs 465 
CHAP. X. 
Proceeds for Charlefton — Calls at a gentleman’s plantation — Adoe— ' Tannier— 
wild pigeons — After fruticofus — leaves Charlefton, proceeds on his return home 
to Pennfylvania — croffes Cooper river, nine miles above the city — Long Bay — 
reefs of rocks-— meets a gang of Negroes — paffes the boundary-houfe— large fa- 
vanna Dionaea mufcipula — old towns — Brunfwick — the Clarendon or Cape- 
Fear river— North Weft — Livingfton’s creek — Wackamaw lake — Carver’s creek 
Aihwood — various vegetable productions-— cultivated vegetables — defcribes the 
face of the country on the banks of the North Weft and the adjacent lands — ft rata 
©f the earth or foil — rocks — petrifactions — ancient fubrftarine productions, &c. — 
leaves Aftiwood, conti nues up the river — valt trunks of trees with their roots, 
and ftumps of limbs, with the bark on, turned into very hard ftone — Rock-filh 
creek — Crofs Creeks — the rife, progrefs, and prefent ftate of Cambelton — cu- 
rious fpecies of fcandent Fern — Deep River — croffes Haw River — Meherren 
river in Virginia — Cucurbita lagenaria— curious fpecies of Prinos— Alexandria— 
George town — fudden fall of fnow — extreme cold — croffes the river Sufquehanna 
upon the ice— river Schuylkill — arrives at his father’s houfe, within three miles 
of Philadelphia 467 
FART IV. 
CHAP. I. 
Perfons, character, and qualifications of the Aborigines — moft perfect human 
figure — Mufcogulge women— women of the Cherokees— arrogance of the Muff 
cogulges, yet magnanimous and merciful to a vanquiftied enemy 483 
CHAP. II. 
Government and civil foeiety — conftitution fimply natural — the mico or king 
prefides in the fenate — elective — yet myfterious — the next man in dignity and 
power is the great war chief— entirely independent of the mico— his voice in coun- 
cil of the greateft weight concerning military affairs— the high prieft a perfon of 
confequence, and maintains great influence in their conftitution and councils of 
ftate — thefe Indians not idolaters— they adore the Great Spirit, the giver and taker 
away of the breath of life, with the moft profound homage and purity— anecdote 
402 
CHAP. III. 
Drefs, feafls, and divertifements— youth of both fexes are fond of decorations 
with refpebf to drefs— their ears lacerated— diadem plumes, &c.-~ paint their 
Ikin— drefs of the females different from that of the men— great horned owl fkin 
fluffed and born about by the priefts — infignia of wifdom and divination — fond 
of mufic, dancing, and routs— different clatfes of fongs— variety of fteps in their 
dances — fenfible and powerful effeefts — ball play— feftival of the Bufk 455 
CHAP. IV. 
Concerning property, agriculture, arts, and manufactures— private property 
—produce of their agricultural labours— common plantation— king’s crib — public 
treafury — women the moft ingenious and vigilant in mechanic arts and manufac- 
tures 509 
C H A P. V. 
Marriages and funeral rites— polygamy-— take wives whi 1 ft they are yet young 
children — adultery — Mufcogulges bury their dead in a fitting pofture — ftrange 
cuftoms of the Chacfaws relative to duties to the deceafed — bone-houfe— dirges— - 
feaft to the dead— methods which the nurfes purfue to flatten the infant’s fkull and 
retain its form 51a 
CHAP. VI. 
Language and monuments— Mufcogulge language fpoken throughout the con- 
federacy-agreeable to the ear— Cherokee language loud-— pyramidal artificial hills 
or mounts, terraces, obelifks— high ways and artificial lakes- 
flave pofts 
-chunk yards — 
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INTRODUCTION, 
