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feveral Ids ones round about the great one, with 
fome very large tetragon terraces on each fide, near 
one hundred yards in length, and their furface 
four, lix, eight and ten feet above the ground on 
which they Hand. 
We may however hazard a conjedure ; that as 
there is generally a narrow fpace or ridge in thefe 
low lands, immediately bordering on the river’s 
bank, which is eight or ten feet higher than the ad- 
joiningjow grounds, that lie betwixt the ftream and 
the heights of the adjacent main land, which, when 
the river overflows its banks, are many feet under 
water, when, at the fame time, this ridge on the 
river bank is above water and dry, and at fuch in- 
undations appears as an ifland in the river ; thefe 
people might have had a town on this ridge, and 
this mount raifed for a retreat and refuge in cafe of 
Inundations, which are unforefeen and furprize them 
very fuddenly, fpring and autumn. 
Having finifhed my collections and obfervations* 
which were extended to a conliderable diftance in 
the environs of Dartmouth ; May ioth fat off a- 
gain, proceeding for Keowe ; rode fix or eight 
miles up the river above the fort ; croffed over into 
Carolina and foon got into the high road ; but. had 
not proceeded far, when I was furprifed by a hidden 
very heavy fhower of rain, attended with terrific 
thunder, but luckily found prefent fhelter at a farm 
houfe, where I continued above an hour before 
its fury abated ; when I proceeded again, and not- 
withftanding this detention and obitacles in confe- 
quence of the heavy rains in rail! ng the creeks, tra- 
velled thirty five miles, and arrived in die evening 
at Mr. Cameron’s, deputy com miffary for Indian 
affairs for the Cherokee nation* to whom I was re- 
commended 
