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between the fields on both sides of the river. The river from this point curves round to the W then to the E. The second ford is below this turn E at the lower end of a small island. From the left side enter the river 40 yards below the Island & go up to the point of it - then turn down as the ripple directs & land 60 yards below. This is the best ford. The third is still lower - from 4 to 5 hundred yards. The land back from the fields to the E. rises 20 feet and continues flat for one mile to the pine forest. Back of the fields adjoining the rise of 20 feet is a beaver pond of 40 acres, capable of being drained at a small expense of labour. The large creek bounds the fields & the flat land to the S. Continuing on down the river from the creek, the land rises to a high flat, formerly the Cussetuh town & afterwards a Chickasaw town. This flat is intersected with one branch. From the southern border of this flat, the Cussetuh town is seen below, on a flat just above the flood mark; surrounded with this high flat to the N and E. and the river to the W. The land about the town is poor & much exhausted - they cultivate but little here of early corn - the principal dependence is on the rich fields above the creek. To call them rich, must be understood in a limited sense - they have been so, but being cultivated beyond the memory of the oldest man in Cussetuh, they are almost exhausted. The produce is brought from the fields to the town in canoes,