TRAVELS IN 
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miles down to Sinica, and in width one and two 
miles* This fertile vale within the remembrance of 
fome old traders with whom I converfed, was one 
continued fettlement ; the fwelling fides of the ad- 
joining hills were then covered with habitations, 
and the rich level grounds beneath lying on the ri- 
ver, was cultivated and planted, which now exhi- 
bit a very different fpedtacle, humiliating indeed to 
the prefent generation, the pofteriry and feeble re- 
mains of the once potent and renowned Cherokees: 
the veftiges of the ancient Indian dwellings are yet 
vifible on the feet of the hills bordering and front- 
ing on the vale, fuch as pods or pillars of their ha- 
bitations, &c. 
There are feveral Indian mounts or tumuli, and 
terraces, monuments of the ancients, at the old fite 
of Keowe, near the fort Prince George, but no In- 
dian habitations at prefent ; and here are feveral 
dwellings inhabited by white people concerned in 
the Indian trade : Mr. D. Homes is the principal 
trader here. 
The old fort Prince George now bears no marks 
pf a fortrefs, but ferves for a trading houfe. 
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