CONTENTS. 
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-makes collections- 
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CHAP. IX, 
Short "excurfion in the South of Georgia- 
feeds of two new and very curious fhrubs 
CHAP. X. 
Proceeds for Charlefton — Calls at a gentleman’s plantation — Adoe— Tan*-, 
pier— wild pigeons— Alter fruticofus — leaves Charlefton, proceeds on his 
return home to Pennfylvania— crofies Cooper river, nine miles above the 
city — -Long Bay — reefs of rocks— meets a gang of Negroes* — palfes the boun- 
dary-houle— large favanna— Dionaea mufcipula — old towns— Brunfwick— 
the Clarendon or Cape- Fear river* — North Weft — Li vingftou’s creek— 
Wackamaw lake— Carver's creek— Afluvood— ■ various vegetable produc- 
tions— cultivated vegetables— defcribes the face of the country on the banks 
of theN orth Weft and the adjacent lands — flrata of the earth or foil — rocks 
—petrifactions— ancient fnbmarine productions, &c— leaves Alhwood, con- 
tinues up the river* — vaff: trunks of trees with their roots, and flumps of 
limbs with the bark on, turned into very hard ftone — Rock-Fifh creek— 
Crofs creeks— the rife, progrefs, and prefent flate of Cambelton — curious 
fpecies of fcandent Fern* — Deep river— crofies Haw river* — Meherren ri- 
ver in Virginia — Cucurbita lageaaria — -curious fpecies of Prinos— Alexan- 
dria- — George town — hidden fall of fnotv— extreme cold— crofies the river 
Sufquehanna upon the ice — river Schuylkill— arrives at his father’s houfe 9 
within three miles of Philadelphia 467 
PART IV. 
CHAP. I. 
Perfons, character, and qualifications of the Aborigines— moil perfeCt hu-* 
ynan figure— Mufcogulge women— women of the Cherokees— arrogance of 
the Mufcogulges, yet magnanimous and merciful to a vanquished enemy 481 
CHAP. II. 
Government and civil fociety — conflitution {imply natural— the mico or 
|cing prefides in the fenate— elective — yet myfterious — the next man in 
dignity and power is the great war chief — entirely independent of the mico 
—his voice in council of the greateft weight concerning military affairs— 
the high prieft a perfon of confequence, and maintains great influence in 
their constitution and councils of Hate— thefe Indians not idolaters— they 
adore the Great Spirit, the giver and taker away of the breath of life, with 
the molt profound homage and purity— anecdote 49a 
CHAP. Ill, 
Drefs, feafts, and divertifements— youth of both fexes are fond of decora- 
tions with refpeCt to drefs — their ears lacerated— diadem plumes, Re - 
paint their fkin- — drefs of the females different from that of the men— great 
horned owl fkin fluffed and borne about by the priefts— infignia of wifdom 
and divination— fond of mufic, dancing and routs— different claffes of fongs 
—variety of fteps in their dances— fenfible and powerful effeCts — ball play 
— feilival of the Bulk 493 
CHAP. IV. 
Concerning property, agriculture, arts and manufaClures — private pro- 
perty- — produce of their agricultural labours— common plantation — king’s 
crib — public treafury — women the molt ingenious and vigilant in mechanic, 
arts and manufactures 509 
CHAP. V. 
Marriages and funeral rites — -polygamy— take wives whilft they are yet 
young children— adultery— Mufcogulges bury their dead in a fitting pofture 
‘^—flrange cuiloms of the ChaCtaws relative to duties to the deceafed — bone 
houfe— dirges— feaft to the dead— methods which the nurfes purfue to flat- 
ten the infant’s fkull and retain its form 512 
CHAP. VI. 
Language and monuments — Mufcogulge language fpoken throughout the 
confederacy— agreeable to the ear — Cherokee language loud — pyramidal 
artificial hills or mounts, terraces, obelifks— high ways and artificial lakes— 
Chunk yards*— Have polls 517 
INTRODUCTION. 
