NORTH AMERICA* 
The Cherokees condru6t their habitations on a 
different plan from the Creeks ; that is, but one 
oblong four fquare building, of one ffory high ; the 
materials confiding of logs or trunks of trees, drip- 
ped of their bark, notched at their ends, fixed one 
upon another, and afterwards plaidered well, both 
infide and out, with clay well tempered with dry 
grafs, and the whole covered or roofed with the 
bark of the chefnut tree or long broad fh ingles. 
This building is however partitioned tranfverfely, 
forming three apartments, which communicate with 
each other by infidJ doors ; each houfe or habita- 
tion has befides a little conical houfe, covered with 
dirt, which is called the winter or hot-houfe ; this 
dands a few yards didant from the manfion-houfe, 
oppofite the front door. 
The council or town-houfe is a large rotunda, 
capable of accommodating fcveral hundred peoples 
it dands on the top of an ancient artificial mount of 
earth, of about twenty feet perpendicular, and the 
rotunda on the top of it being above thirty feet 
more, gives the whole fabric an elevation of about 
fixty feet from the common furface of the ground. 
But it may be proper to obferve, that this mount, 
on which the rotunda dands, is of a much ancienter 
date than the building, and perhaps was raifed for 
another purpofe. The Cherokees themfelves are 
as ignorant as we are, by what people or for what 
purpofe thefe artificial hills were raifed ; they have 
various dories concerning them, the bed of which 
amount to no more than mere conje&'ure, and 
leave us entirely in the dark ; but they have a tra® 
dition common with the other nations of Indians, 
that they found them in much the fame condition 
as they now appear, when their forefathers arrived 
