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A sketch of the Creek Country in the years 1798 and 1799. By Col: Benj: Hawkins. The origin of the name Creek is uncertain. The tradition is, that it was given by white people, from the number of creeks & water courses in the country. The Indian name is Muscogee.* The Creeks come from the west. They have a tradition among them that there are in the fork of Red River west of the Mississippi, two mounds of earth; that at this place the Cussetuhs, Cowetuhs, and Chickasaws, found themselves; that being distressed by wars with red people, they crossed the Mississippi; directing their course eastwardly they crossed the falls of Tal,lapoosa above Took,au,bat,che, settled below the falls of Chatto,ho,che and spread out from theire to Ocmulgee, O,co,nee, Savannah and down on the Sea-coast towards Charlestown. There they first saw white people & from hence they have been compelled to retire back again to their present settlements. The country lying between Coosau Tallapoosa and Chat,to,ho,che, above their falls, is broken; the soil Stiff? with coarse gravel & in some places, stone; the trees, post oak, white & black oak, pine, hickery & chestnut, all of them Small; - the whole, well watered. And the rivers & creeks have rocky beds, clad in many places with moss, greatly

*G. is always hard in Creek. Musco,gee, a Creek - Musco,qul,gee the Creeks. Chelokee, a Cherokee_ Che,loc,ul,gee, the Cherokees.