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CONTENT 
CHAP. IV. 
Sets off from Whatoga to the Overhill towns — Jore village— -Roaring Creek 
the Author and his guide part - furprifed by an Indian— falute and part friendly 
— mountainous vegetable productions arrives on the top of Jore mountain fub- 
lime profpefts— Atta-kul-kulla, grand Cherokee chief— gracious reception — re- 
turns to Cowe— great council-houfe— curious Indian dance — returns and hops at 
Sinica— arrives again at fort James, Dartmouth— lift of Cherokee towns and 
Villages n C *7 
CHAR V. 
Sets off from Dartmouth to the Upper Creeks and Cha&aws country— Flat Rock 
—a curious plant — Rocky Comfort — Ocone old Town— migration of the Ocones 
— crcffes the river— fords the Odkmulge at the Oakrnulge Reids - Stoney Creek — 
Great and Little Tabofachte — new fpecies of Hydrangia— croffes Flint River— de- 
feribes the country — per fecuted by extraordinary heats and incredible numbers of bit- 
ing flies — Hippobofca and Afilus— extraordinary thunder gulf • croffes Chata Uche 
river — deferibes the town — very large and populous — proceeds and arrives at the A- 
palacbucla town— -vifits the old town — extraordinary remains and monuments of 
the ancients— general face of the country and vegetable productions — new fpecies 
of iEfculus 
373 
CHAP. VI. 
Proceeds, and after three days journey arrives at Tallafe, on the Tallapoofe river 
— “Coloome, a handfome town— great plains — further account of the country — 
Dog woods — croffes the river Schambe —comes to Taenfa on the Eaft banks of 
the Mobile, thirty miles above the city— French inhabitants — paffes down the 
river, arrives at the city of Mobile — fhort account of the city and fort Conde— 
returns to Taenfa, and proceeds up the river as far as the entrance of the Chicafaw 
branch — floating forefis of the Nymph sea Nelumbo — viRts the adjacent lands— 
returns to Mobile — goes to the river Perdido — continues on to Penfacola— cordi-' 
ally received by governor Chefter — fome account of the town— difeovers a new 
and beautiful fpecies of Sarracenia — returns to Mobile 394, 
CHAP. VII. 
Leaves Mobile for Manchac on the Miffiffippi — proceeds by water to Pearl Ifland 
— kindly entertained by Mr. Rumfey— deferibes the ifland — large crimfon Plum 
—a delicate fpecies of Mimofa— pafles lake Pontchartrain— touches at the river 
Taenfapaoa — paffes over Lake Maurepas — proceeds up to Iberville — -croffes by land 
to Manchac — goes up the Miffiffippi — fettlements of New-Richmond — White 
Plains — curious mufcle fhells in the river — croffes over to Point Coupe — Spanifh 
village and fortrefs — high cliffs oppoRte Point Coupe— returns to the Amite, 
thence down through the tanks and founds back again to Mobile 416 
CHAP. VIII. 
Leaves Mobile on his return— proceeds with a company of traders for the Creek 
nation — his horfe tires —is in great diftrefs — meets a company of traders, of whom 
he purchafes a frelh horfe— Illicium groves — meets a company of emigrants from 
Georgia — great ernbarraffment at a large creek fwollen with late heavy rains— 
arrives at the banks of the Alabama — crofles it and arrives at Mucclaffe — Indian 
marriage — ferious reflections — perilous fituation of the trader of Mucclaffe — fets 
off for Ottaffe— deferibes the country contiguous to the Tallapoofe river — plan- 
tations and towns — Coolome — Tuckabatche— croffes the river and arrives at Ot- 
taffe — rotunda and fquare — black drink — fpiral fire — Sabbath or holy day to the 
Great Spirit — fets off with a company of traders for Georgia — Chehaw and Uf- 
feta. Creek towns on the Apalachucla river, almoft- join each other, yet the in- 
habitants fpeak two languages radically different — arrives at the Oakrnulge — 
croffes the river in a portable leather boat— croffes the river Gconne — head 
branches of Great Ogeche — arrives at Augufta— takes leave or Augufta and his 
friends there, and proceeds for Savanna — lift of Mufcogulge towns and villages— 
conjectures concerning the rife of the Mufcogulge confederacy 43S 
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