NORTH AMERICA. 
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CHAP. VL 
LANGUAGE and MANNERS. 
The Mufcogulge language isfpoken thfOfigh- 
out the confederacy, (although confiftingof many 
nations, who have a fpeech peculiar to them- 
felves) as alfo by their friends and allies, the 
Natches. The Chicafaw and Cha&aw, the Muf- 
eogulges fay are diale&s of theirs« 
This language is very agreeable to the ear, 
courteous, gentle and mufical : the letter R is 
not founded in one word of their language : the 
women in particular fpeak fo fine and mufical, as 
to reprefent the fingingof birds ; and when heard 
and not feen, one might imagine it to be the 
prattling of young children. The men’s fpeech 
is indeed more ftrong and fonorous, but not 
harfh, and in no inftance guttural, and I believe 
the letter R is not ufed to exprefs any word, in 
any language of the confederacy. 
The Cherokee tongue, on the contrary, is very 
loud, fomewhat rough and very fonorous, found- 
ing the letter R frequently, yet very agreeable 
and pleafant to the ear. All the Indian lan- 
guages are truly rhetorical, or figurative, affift- 
ing their fpeech by tropes ; their hands, flexure 
of the head, the brow, in fhort, every member, 
naturally aflociate, and give their affiftance to 
render their harangues eloquent, perfuafive and 
effectual. 
The pyramidal hills or artificial mounts, and 
high- ways, or avenues, leading from them to ar- 
tificial lakes or ponds, vail tetragon terraces, 
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