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long since, & to my knowledge, there is but one of this character at Coosawattee, the inhabitants of which are gradually diminishing by emigration to the woods, where they prepared to clear the forest & govern their own individual plantations. In this view of their location, it readly appears, that they are farmers and husbandmen which is their real character. It is true that there are distinctions now insisting & increasingly so in the value of property possessed by individuals, but this only answers a good purpose, as a stimulus to those in the rear to equal their neighbors who have taken the lead. Their principal dependence for smudge subsistence is on the production of their own farms. Indian corn is a staple production scratched out: of our people and is the most essential article of food in use. Wheat, rye & oats grow very well & some families have commenced to introduce them on their farms. Cotton is generally raised for domestic consumption and a few have grown it for market & have realized very good profits. I take pleasure to state, tho' cautiously, that there is not to my knowledge a solitary Cherokee to be found that depends upon the chase for subsistence