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These? people have? some cattle & a few hogs & horses. They have? some settlements up O,fuck,she. The increase of property among them & the inconvenience attendant on their situation, - their settlements being on the right side of the river & their fields and stock on the left, brought the well disposed to listen with attention to the plan of civilization & to comment freely on their bad management. The town divided against itself, the idlers? and the ill disposed remained in the town, and the others moved over the river, & fenced their fields. on this side the land is good & level, & the range out from the river good to the sources of O,fuc,she. On the other side, the high broken land comes close to the river; it is broken pine barren back of that. The situation of the town is low & unhealthy, & this remark applies to all the towns on the Tallapoosa below the falls. O,fuc,she has its source near the Ko,e,ne,cuh, 30 miles from the river & runs N. It has 8 or 9 forks & the land good on all of them. Oak, hickory, poplar, cherry, persimmon, with cane brakes on the flats & hills. It is a delightful range for stock, & was preserved by the Indians for Bear & called the beloved Bear ground. Every town had a reserve of this sort exclusively; but as the cattle increase & the Bear decrease, they are hunted in common. This creek is 60 feet wide, steep banks, and difficulty to cross, when the waters are high. Kebihatche has its source to the E and is parallel with Ca,le,be,hat,che. The margins of the creek, rich flats