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feveral lefs ones round about the 1 ' great one, witft 
fome very large tetragon terraces on each fide, near 
one hundred yards in length, and their furface 
four, fix, eight and ten feet above the ground on 
which they ftand. 
We may however hazard a conjecture ; that as 
tthere is generally a narrow fpace or ridge in thefe 
low lands, immediately bordering on the river’s 
bank, which is eight or ten feet higher than the ad- 
joining low grounds, that lie betwixt the flream and 
the heights of the adjacent main land, which, when 
the river overflows its banks, are many feet under 
water, when, at the fame time, this ridge on the 
river bank is above water and dry, and at fuch in- 
undations appears as an ifland in the river ; thefe 
people might have had a town on this ridge, and 
this mount railed for a retreat and refuge in cafe of 
inundations, which are unforefeen and furprife them 
very fuddenly, ip ring and autumn. 
Having finifhed my collections and obfervations y 
which were extended to a confiderable diftance in 
the environs of Dartmouth; May ioth fat off a- 
gain, proceeding for Keowe ; rode fix or eight 
miles up the river above the fort ; croffed over inta 
Carolina and foon got into the high road; but had 
not proceeded far, when I was furprifed by a fudden 
very heavy fhower of rain, attended with terrific 
thunder, but luckily found prefent fhelter at a farm- 
houfe, where I continued above an hour before 
its fury abated ; when I proceeded again, and not- 
withflanding this detention and obflacles in confe- 
quence of the heavy rains in raifing the creeks, tra- 
velled thirty-five miles, and arrived in the evening 
at Mr. Cameron’s, deputy-commiflfary for Indian 
affairs for the Cherokee nation, to whom I was re- 
3 commended 
