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been borrowed from the Dutch or Walloons. The ufe 
of cartridges, which feems to have taken place about the 
fame time as the firelock, introduced the cartridge-box 
inftead of the bandoleer, which is a great improvement, 
both with refpeft to the more commodious carnage of 
the ammunition, and alfo the quick nefs of firing,'as the 
foldier may fire at leafi: three times the number of (hot 
which he could difcharge when loading from his ban- 
deleer. 
The mufketeers, moufquetaires, formerly employed in 
France, were troopers who fought fometimes on foot, 
ibmetimes on horfeback : they were gentlemen of good 
families, and were divided into two troops, the one called 
the grey mufqueteers, the other the black mufqueteers, 
from the colour of their hories. Whether they have 
been recently reftored, we are not informed. 
MUSKETOO'N, J\ A mufket, fhorter, though thicker, 
than the ordinary mufket. It is fired by the coliifion of 
a fteel and flint in the lock ; whereas the mufket is fired 
by a match. Its bore is a thirty-eighth part of its length ; 
and it carries five ounces of iron, or feven and a half of 
lead, with an equal quantity of powder. This is the 
fhorteft fort of blunderbufs. 
The word is alfo ufed for the man who bears or ufes 
that weapon.—The ambafiadour moved flowly towards 
the fultan’s palace, all the way pafilng between a double 
guard of archers and mvfqueUxms. Sir T. Herbert's Travels. 
MUS'KINESS, J". The fcant of mufk. 
MUSKINGUM', [ail Indian name denoting the “Elk’s 
Eye.”] A county of the ftate of Ohio, bounded north on 
the Indian boundary and Columbiana; fouth on Wafh- 
ington; eafl on Columbiana, Jefterfon, and Belmont; and 
weft on Fairfield. 
MUSKINGUM', a large navigable river in the ftate of 
Ohio. It is two hundred and fifty yards wide at its con¬ 
fluence with the Ohio, 172 miles below Pittfburg, in¬ 
cluding the windings of the Ohio, though in a direfil line 
it is but 90 miles. At its mouth ftands Fort Harmer 
and Marietta. Its banks are fo high as to .prevent its 
overflowing; and it is navigable by large batteaux and 
barges to the Three Tegs, no miles from its mouth, and 
by linall boats to the lake at its head, 45 miles farther. 
From thence, by a portage of about one mile, a com¬ 
munication is opened to Lake Erie, through Cayahoga, 
a ftream of great utility, navigable the whole length, 
without any obftruftion from falls. From Lake Erie, 
the avenue is well known to Hudfon’s River in the ftate 
of New York. The land on this river and its branches is 
of a fuperior quality, and the country abounds in fprings 
and conveniences fitted to fettlements remote from lea 
navigation, viz. falt-fprings, coal, free-ftone, and clay. 
A valuable falt-fpring has been lately dilcovered, eight 
miles from this river, and fifty from Marietta, called the 
JBig Spring. Such a quantity of water flows, as to keep 
3000 gallons conftantly boiling. Ten gallons of this 
water will, as experiment has proved, afford a quart of 
fait of fuperior quality to any made on the fea-coaft. 
JSlorfc's American Gaz. 
MUSKI'TO, or Musgui'TO, f. [mvfca , Lat. a fly.] 
A ftinging-fly or gnat of the Indies. See Culex, vol. v. 
p. 462.—They paint themlelves to keep off the mvjkitas. 
Purchas's Pilgrim. —If in writing voyages you have oc- 
cafion to fend mefien.gers through an uninhabited country, 
infeft them with mufquittos. Cambridge. 
MUSKOGUL'GES, Muskogee's, or Creek Indians, 
as they are more commonly called from the creeks and 
rivulets with which their country abounds, a powerful 
confederacy of aboriginal North Americans, inhabiting 
the middle parts of Georgia. The country they claim is 
bounded north by the 34th degree of latitude, and ex¬ 
tends from the Tombigbee-river to the Atlantic ocean, 
though they have by different treaties ceded a part of 
the trad on the fea-coaft to the ftate of Georgia. The 
weftern line of their fettlements and villages is formed by 
the Coofa-river, and its main branches. but their irum- 
Vol. XVI. No. 312j. 
ing-gTounds extend two hundred miles further to the 
Tombigbee, which feparates their country from the Chac- 
.taws. Their territory is naturally divided into three dif- 
tridfs, viz. the Upper Creeks, Lower and Middle Creeks, 
and Seminoles. The upper diftridf includes all the waters 
of the Tailapoofee, Coofahatchee, and Alabama, rivers; 
and is called the Abbacoes. The lower or middle diftridt 
includes all the waters of the Chattahoofee and Flint 
rivers, down to their jundtion ; and, although occupied 
by a great number of different tribes, they are altogether 
called Coiuetmclgas, or Coweta people, from the Cowetan 
town and tribe, the moil ancient and warlike of any in 
the whole nation. The lower or fouthern diftridt takes 
in the river Appalachicola, extends to the point of Baft 
Florida, and is called the Country of the Seminoles. The 
Creeks, or Mufkoguiges, reckon fifty-five towns befides 
villages ; and they have eftablifhed a powerful empire 
upon the ruins of that of the Natchez. After their emi¬ 
gration from the weft,-beyond the Mifiiffippi, their ori¬ 
ginal native country, they firft fettled on the Oakmulge 
fields: and, gradually iubduing their furrounding ene¬ 
mies, they ftrengthened themlelves by admitting into 
their confederacy the vanquished tribes ; thus they ren¬ 
dered themlelves vidtorious over the Ciiadfavvs, and 
formidable to all the nations around them. The fmafleft 
of their towns contain from twenty to thirty houfes, 
and fome from one hundred and fifty to two hundred. 
Thefe houfes Hand in clufters of four, five, fix, feven, 
and eight, together, irregularly diftributed along the 
banks of the rivers or final! ftreams. Each clulter of 
houfes contains a clan, or family, of relatives, who eat 
and live in common Each town has a public fquare, 
hot-houfe and yard near the centre of it, appropriated to 
various public uies. The principal towns of the Upper 
and Lower Creeks that have thefe public fquares, begin¬ 
ning at the head of the Coofa, or Coofa Hatcha river, are 
Upper Utalas, Abbacoochees, Natches, Coofas, Oteetoo- 
heenas, Pine Catchas, Pocuntullahafes, Weeokes, Little 
Talafsie, Tulkeegees, Coofadas, Alabama-s, Tawafas, 
Pawadtas, Antobas, Auhoba, Weelumpkees Big, Wee- 
luropkees Little, Wacacoys, Wackfoy, and Ochees. The 
following towns are in the central, inland, and high, 
country, between the Coofa and Tailapoofee rivers, in 
the diftridt called the Hillabees,; viz. Hillabees, Kiileegko, 
Oakchoys, Slakagulgas, and Wacacoys. On the waters 
of the Tailapoofee, from the head of the river downward, 
are the following: Tackabotchee, Tehaffa, Totacaga, 
New York, Chalaacpaulley, Lognlpogus, Oakfufkee, 
Ufala Little, Ufala Big, Sogahatches, Tuckabatchees, 
Big Tallaffee, or half-way-houfe, Ciewaleys, Coofahat- 
ches, Coolamus, Shawanefe or Savannas, Kenhalka, and 
Muckelefes. The towns of the Lower Creeks, begin¬ 
ning on the two waters of the Chattahoofee, and fo 
downwards, are Chelu Ninny, Chattahoofee, Hohtatoga, 
Cowetas, Cuffitahs, Chalagatfcoor, Broken Arrow, Eu- 
chees Several, Hitchatees Several, Paiachuolo, and Che- 
wackala: befides twenty towns and villages of the Little 
and Big Chehaus, low down on Flint and Chattahoofee 
rivers. 
Their country is hilly, but not mountainous; and the 
foil is very fertile and well watered. Their agriculture 
is as far advanced as it well can be without the proper 
implements of hufbandry. They cultivate tobacco, rice, 
Indian corn, potatoes, beans, peafe, cabbage, melons, and 
have plenty of peaches, plums, grapes, ftrawberries, and 
other fruits. A very large majority of the natives bein°- 
devoted to hunting in the winter, and to war or idienefs 
in thefummer, they cultivate but finall parcels of ground, 
barqly fufficient for fubfiftence. But many individuals, 
particularly on Flint-river, among the Chehaws,^who 
poffefs a number of negroes, have fenced fields, tolerably 
well cultivated : but, as they have no ploughs, they 
break the ground with hoes, and fcatter the feed pro- 
mifc.uoufly over the ground, in hills, but not in rows: 
they rear Lories, cattle, fowls, and hogs: the only arricles- 
5 K. they 
