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Coosau has its source high up in the Cherokee country. E,tow,woh and Oos,te,nau,lih? are its main branches. The land on these rivers is rich & abounds with limestone. Sixty miles above the confluence of Coosa with Talapoosa, there is a high waving limestone country settled by the Indians of Coosau, Au,be,coo, che Nau,che and Eufau lau,hat,che?. The settlements are generally on rich flats of oak, hickory, poplar, walnut & mulberry. the springs are fine, - cane in the creeks & reed in the branches. The surrounding country is broken & gravelly. The land fit for culture is generally the margins of the Creeks in the waving slopes from the high broken land. Throughout the whole of this country there is but little fruit of any kind; - in some of the rich flats there are fox grapes & muscadines; the small cluster grapes of the hills are destroyed by fire and the persimmon, haw & chestnut by the hatchet; - a few blackberries in the old fields; red haws in the poor? sand? hills, & strawberries thinly scattered, but not a gooseberry nor currant in the land. The traveller in passing through a country as extensive? and wild as this and so much in a state of nature, expects to see game in abundance. The whole of the Creek claims (the unknown inclusive) cover three hundred miles square; & it is difficult for a good hunter, in passing through it in any direction, to obtain enough for his support.