TRAVELS IN 
Next day, after traveling a very delightful ter- 
ritory, exhibiting a charming rural fcenery of pri- 
mitive nature, gently defcending and palling alter- 
nately eafy declivities or magnificent terraces fup- 
porting fublime forefts, almoft endlefs graffy fields, 
detached groves and green lawns for the diflance 
of nine or ten miles, we arrived at the banks of the 
Chata Uche river oppofite the Uche town ; where, 
after unloading our horfes, the Indians came over 
to us in large canoes, by means of which, with the 
cheerful and liberal aOiftance of the Indians, fer- 
ried over the merchandize, and afterwards driv- 
ing our horfes altogether into the river fwam them 
over : the river here is about three or four hundred 
yards wide, carries fifteen or twenty feet water,, 
and flows down with an adtive current ; the water 
is clear, cool and falubrious. 
The Uche town is fituated in a vaft plain, on 
the gradual afcent as we rife from a narrow {trip 
af low ground immediately bordering on the river : 
it is the largeft, moft compact, and bell fituated 
Indian town I ever faw ; the habitations are large 
and neatly built ; the walls of the houfes are con* 
ilrudted of a wooden frame, then lathed and plait- 
iered inlide and out with a reddifh well tempered 
clay or mortar, which gives them the appearance 
of red brick walls j and thefe houfes are neatly co- 
vered or roofed with Cyprefs bark or fhingles of 
that tree. The town appeared to be populous and 
thriving, full of youth and young children : I fup- 
pofe the number of inhabitants, men, women and 
children, might amount to one thoufand or fifteen 
hundred, as it is faid they are able to mufter five 
hundred gun-men or warriors. Their own national 
language is altogether or radically different from 
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