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of the two rivers Coosau & Tallapoosa, where formerly stood the french fort Toulouse. The town is on a bluff on the Coosau 46 feet above low water mark. The rivers here approach each other within 1/4 of a mile; then curve out, making a flat of low land, of three thousand acres, which has been rich with can brake; and 1/3 under cultivation in times past. The center of this flat is rich oak and hickory, margined on both sides with rich cane swamp. The land back of the town for a mile, is flat, a whitish clay, small pine, oak & dwarf hickory, then high pine forest. There are 30 buildings in the town, compactly situated & from the bluff, a fine view of the flat lands in the fork & on the rights bank of Coosau, which river is here 200 yards wide. In the yard of the town house there are 5 cannon of iron with the trunnions broken off, and on the bluff some brick bats, the only remains of the French establishment here. There is one apple tree claimed by this town, now in possession of one of the chiefs of Hook,choie,oo,che. The fields are on the left side of Tallapoosa & some small patches well fenced in the fork of the river, on the flat rich land below the bluff. Coosau, extending itself a great way into the Cherokee country & mountains, gives scope for a vast accumulation of waters at times. The Indians remark that once in 15 or 16 years they have a flood,