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lation. Although the site of the new town is represented as ex¬ 
tremely healthy, yet they have suffered during the preceding 
summer from bilious fever. The country around is little built 
upon, and the woods begin not far behind the houses. 
About nine o’clock in the morning, on the 28th December, 
we left Macon and rode thirty-one miles distance to the Indian 
agency, on the left bank of Flint river, called by the Indians, 
Thlo-no-teas-kah. The road was partly sandy, partly rocky, but 
extremely uneven. It was kept in very bad order. No pains 
had been taken to carry away or saw through trees, which had 
fallen more than a year back crosswise over the road; the carriage 
was obliged to make a considerable deviation through the woods 
to pass these fallen trees. The plantations by which we passed, 
are all new; the houses were completely log huts. The tiresome 
uniformity of the pine woods were, in the low and marshy 
places into which we often came, very pleasantly interrupted by 
evergreen cane, as well as by thorn oaks and laurel trees, we 
also saw several green-leaved trees, chiefly oaks, as formerly. 
Towards four o’clock in the afternoon we reached the agency, 
a group of twenty log houses, and some negro huts. It is ap¬ 
pointed for the residence of the agent of the United States with 
the Creek Indians, (he, however, was absent at this time,) and is 
situated in a very handsome tract of land on the left side of the 
Flint river, which rushes over a rocky bed between pretty steep 
banks. The right bank belongs to the Creek nation, of about 
twenty-one thousand souls, and is inhabited by them. The con¬ 
test between the state of Georgia and the United States is caused 
by this territory. The state of Georgia had concluded a treaty 
with one of the Creek chiefs, McIntosh, concerning the surrender 
of this district of land; the nation, discontented with the treaty, 
and is nowise willing to evacuate their country, insisted that they 
had been deceived, and killed M‘Intosh. The United States es¬ 
poused the side of the Indians, and blamed the Georgia commis¬ 
sioners for scandalous impositions upon the Indians. Congress 
is now about to decide upon this matter. In one of the log-houses, 
with a Mr. Crowell, we took up our night’s lodging, and enjoyed 
some very well-cooked venison. In a neighbouring grog-shop 
we found a collection of drunken Indians, and some negroes, who 
were frolicing during the Christmas holy-days. Several of them 
were well dressed; they wore mocassins and leggings of leather; 
broad knee-bands ornamented with white glass beads, a sort of 
coat of striped cotton; and upon the head a striped cotton cloth, 
almost like a turban. Several of them were very large. For a 
treat of whiskey, which 1 gave them, eight of them performed 
the war dance. They skipped here and there in a circle, moved 
