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They have no fences. They have huts in the fields to shelter the labourers in the summer season from rain, & for the guards set to watch the crops while they are growing. At this season some families mover over & reside in their fields, and return with their crops into the town. There are two paths, one through the fields on the river bank & the other, back of the swamp. In the season for melons the Indians of this town & Foosee hat,che, show, in a particular manner, their hospitality to all travellers, by calling to them, inviting them to their huts or shades of their trees and giving them excellent melons & the best fare they possess. Opposite the town house in the fields is a Conic? Mound of earth 30 feet diameter, 10 feet high; & large peachtrees at several places. At the lower end of the fields on the left bank of a fine little Creek, Se,cau,suh, is a pretty little village of Coo,le,me? people finely situated on a rising ground. The land up this creek is waving pine forest. 7. E,cun,hut,ke, from e,cun,nau, earth, & hut,ke, white, called by the traders white ground. This little town is just below Coa,loo,me?, on the same side of the river, and five or six miles above Sam bel,loh?, a large fine creek which has its source in the pine hills to the N: and its whole course through broken pine hills. It appears to be a never failing stream & fine for mills. The fields belonging to this town are on both sides of the river. 8.