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vale of Cowe, exhibiting one of the moft charming 
natural mountaneous landfcapes perhaps any where 
to be feen ; ridges of hills rifmg grand and fublimely 
one above and beyond another/ fome boldly and 
majeftically advancing into the verdant plain, their 
feet bathed with the filver flood of the Tanafe, 
whilft others far diftant, veiled in blue mills, fub- 
limely mounting aloft, with yet greater majefty lift 
up their pompous crefts, and overlook vaft re- 
gions. 
The vale is clofed at Cowe by a ridge of mighty 
hills, called the Jore mountain, faid to be the higheft 
land in the Cherokee country, which crofles the 
Tanafe here. 
On my arrival at this town I waited on the gen- 
tlemen to whom I was recommended by letter, 
and was received with refpe£t and every demonftra- 
tion of hofpitality and friendlhip. 
I took my refidence with Mr. Galahan the 
chief trader here, an ancient refpeftable man, who 
had been many years a trader in this country, and 
is effeemed and beloved by the Indians for his hu- 
manity, probity and equitable dealings with them 5 
which, to be juft and candid I am obliged to ob~ 
ferve (and blufh for my countrymen at the recital) 
is fomewhat of a prodigy ; as it is a fa 6 t, I am 
afraid too true, that the white traders in their com- 
merce with the Indians, get great and frequent oc- 
cafions of complaint of their difhonefty and vio- 
lence : but yet there are few exceptions, as in the 
conduct of this gentleman, who furnifhes a living 
inftance of the truth of the old proverb, that <c Ho- 
nefty is the belt policy for this old honeft Hiber- 
nian has often been protected by the Indians, when 
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