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ful and friendly, and they move with a becoming 
grace and dignity. 
The Miifcogulge women, though remarkably 
fhort of ftature, are well formed; their vifage round, 
features regular and beautiful ; the brow high and 
arched ; the eye large, black, and languifhing, ex- 
preffive of modefty, diffidence, and baftifulnefs ; 
thefe charms are their defenfive and offenfive wea- 
pons, and they know very well how to play them 
off, and under cover of thefe alluring graces, are 
concealed the moil fubtile artifice; they are how- 
ever loving and affectionate : they are, I believe, 
the fmalleff race of women yet known, feldom 
above five feet high, and 1 believe the greater num- 
ber never arrive to that ftature ; their hands and 
feet not larger than thole of Europeans of nine or 
ten years of age : yet the men are of gigantic fta- 
ture, a full fize larger than Europeans ; many of 
them above fix feet, and. few under that, or five feet 
eight or ten inches. Their complexion much darker 
than any of the tribes to the North of them that I 
have feen. This defcription will, I believe, com- 
prehend the Mufcogulges, their confederates, the 
ChaCtaws, and I believe the Chicafaws (though I 
&ave never feen their women), excepting however 
feme bands of the Siminoles, Uches and Savannu- 
cas, who are rather taller and iQenderer, and their 
complexion brighten 
The Cherokees are yet taller and more robuft 
than the Mufcogulges, and by far the largeft race 
of men I have feen * ; their complexions brighter 
* There are, however, fome exceptions to this general observation, as I 
have m y fel f w itnelfed . Their prefent grand chief or emperor (the Little Car- 
penter, Atta-knl-kulla) is a man of remarkably fmall ftature, {lender, and 
of a delicate frame, the only inftance I faw in the nation", but he is a man 
©f fuperior abilities. • 
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