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The flat extends from one to two mile back from the river. Above the town and bordering on it, Uche creek 85 feet wide, joins the river. (The two forks 8 miles up - on the right We,tum,cau - the left, Hoso,po,li,gee.?.) Opposite the town house on the left bank of the river, there is a narrow strip of flat land from 50 to 100 yards wide, then high pine barren hills. There people speak a tongue different from the Creeks. They were formerly settled in small villages at Ponpon?, Saltketchers, (Sot,ke,chuh) Silver Bluff & O,ge,che (How,ge,chuh) and continually at war with the Cherokees, Cat,au,bau & Creeks. In the year 1729 an old Chief of Cusseethu called by the white people Catpt. Ellick, married three Uchee women and brought them to Cussetuh, which was generally disliked by his towns people. Their opposition determined him to move from Cussetuh. Her went down opposite where the town is & settled with his three brothers, two of whom had Uchee wives. He after this collected all the Uchees, gave them the land where their town now is, and there they settled. These people are more civil and orderly than their neighbours - their women more chaste and the men better hunters. They retain all their original customs & laws and have adopted none of the Creeks. They have some worm fences in & about their town, and but very few peach trees. They have lately begun to settle out in villages and are industrious, compared with their neighbours. The men