NORTH AMERICA, 
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CHAP. VI. 
LANGUAGE and MANNERS, 
The Mufcogulge language is fpoken through- 
out the confederacy (although confiding of many 
nations* who have a fpeech peculiar to them- 
felves), as alfo by their friends and allies* the 
Natches. The Chicafaw and Chadtaw, the Muf- 
cogulges fay are dialeds of theirs. 
This language is very agreeable to the ear* 
courteous* gentle and mufical: the letter R is 
not founded in one word of their language: the 
women in particular fpeak fo fine and mufical* as 
to reprefent the finging of birds ; and when heard 
and not feen* one might imagine it to be the 
prattling of young children. The men’s fpeech 
is indeed more ftrong and fonorous* but not 
harfh, and in no inflance guttural* and I believe 
the letter R is not ufed to exprefs any word* in 
any language of the confederacy. 
The Cherokee tongue* on the contrary* is very 
loud* fomewhat rough and very fonorous* found- 
ing the letter R frequently, yet very agreeable 
and pleafant to the ear. All the Indian languages 
are truly rhetorical* or figurative* aflifting their 
fpeech by tropes ; their hands* flexure of the head* 
the brow* in fhort* every member, naturally aflb- 
date* and give their afliftance to render their ha- 
rangues eloquent* perfuafive and effectual. 
The pyramidal hills or artificial mounts, and 
highways* or avenues* leading from them fG ar- 
tificial lakes or ponds* vaft tetragon terraces, 
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