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The soil of the waving is some of stiff & red, with stones on the ridges. The pine land stiff, generally, & pretty good for corn. Tal,la,poo.sa? from its falls to its confluence with Coosau about thirty miles has some good flat land. The broken land terminates on its right bank and the good land spreads out on its left. There are several fine creeks on this side which have their source in the ridge. Dividing these waters from Ko,e,ne,cuh?. The land bordering on them is rich, the timber large & cane abundant. This good land extend, to the Alabama & down it for 3 miles, including the plains (Hiquepul,gee?). These are 17 miles through, going parallel to Alabama, S. 20 W. They are waving, hill & dale, & appear divided into fields. In the fields the grass is short, no brush; the soil, in places, is a lead colour, yellow underneath, within the abode of ants, & very stiff. In the wooded parts the growth is generally post oak & very large, without any under brush, beautifully set in clumps. Here the soil is a dark clay, covered with long grass & weed, which indicate a rich soil. One observation applies to all the fields - in the centre, the land is poorest, the grass the shortest, and it rises gradually to the wooded margins, where it is tall & the land apparently rich. Four large Creeks meander through the plains to Alabama. They all have broad margins of still, level, rich land, well wooded & abounding with cane. There is notwithstanding these Creeks, a scarcity of water in the dry season, and all the Creeks were dry in 1799 & not a spring of water is to be found.