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That this race was very numerous is manifest from the frequent and extensive burying places which we find in several parts of our state. I must first observe that so far as we can learn from tradition, amongst the present Indians (and I have conducted the oldest and the most instructed amongst these Cherokes and Creeks) this state and Kentucky were never permanently inhabited by any tribe, They visited them only in their Hunting excursions - they had an abhorence of KY the land of the dark and bloody ground and the burying places in which I found the skulls of Cherokees are few and not extensive. Now this is not the case with the burying places in which I found the skulls in question - I will only mention those that are found in our neighbourhood. We have one near the suburbs of our Town which extends from near the Cumberland River almost to Mr. Macgavocs it is about a mile in length, how much in breadth I cannot say, the road and the houses have covered one side and the Cultivated ground the other; In the field next to it a tumulus which is now worn down. From the part that I have examined of this grand Yard, I found that the stone coffins were close to one another situated in such a manner that each corps was seperated only by a single stone from the other. On the other side of the river about 1 1/2 or 2 miles from this is another burying ground where the graves are equally numerous - at Cockerels spring 2 or 2 1/2 miles from the first mentioned is another about 6 miles from Nashville on the Charlotte road, we have another at De Moss's near the Harpeth river another; at Haysboro another, so that in a circle of about 10 miles diameter we have 6 extensive burying grounds. Some of our inhabitants consider these places as battle grounds and the graves as graves of the slain - but that is not the case; The Indians do not bury their fallen foes; but leave them to be devoured by the wolf and other carnavorous animals