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cheerful and friendly, and they move with a be- 
coming grace and dignity. 
The Mufcogulge women, though remarkably 
Ihort of ftature, are well formed ; their vifage 
round, features regular and beautiful ; the brow 
high and arched ; the eye large, black and lan- 
guilhing, expreffive of modefty, diffidence, and 
bafhfulnefs ; thefe charms are their defenfive and 
offenfive weapons, and they know very well how 
to play them off, and under cover of thefe alluring 
graces, are concealed the moft fubtile artifice ; 
they are however loving and affedionate : they 
are, I believe, the fmalleft race of women yet 
known, feldom above five feet high, and I believe 
the greater number never arrive to that ftature ; 
their hands and feet not larger than thofe of Eu- 
ropeans of nine or ten years of age : yet the men 
are of gigantic ftature, a full fize larger than Eu- 
ropeans ; many of them above fix feet, and few 
under that, or five feet eight or ten inches. Their 
complexion much darker than any of the tribes 
to the North of them that I have feen. This de~ 
fcription will I believe comprehend the Mufco- 
gulges, their confederates, the Chadaws, and I 
believe the Chicafaws (though I have never feen 
their women), excepting however fome bands of 
the Siminoies, Uches ahd Savannucas, who are 
rather taller and llenderer, and their complexion 
brighter. 
The Cherokees are yet taller and more robuft 
than the Mufcogulges, and by far the largeft race 
of men I have feen* ; their complexions brighter 
* There are, however, fome exceptions to this general obfervation, as 1 
have myfelf witnefled. Their prefent grand chief or emperor(the Little Car- 
penter, Atta-kul-kulla) is a man of remarkably fmall ftature, flender, and 
of a delicate frame, the only inftance 1 law in the nation : but he is a man of 
Superior abilities; 
and 
