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to get a liberty of viewing the aforesaid tables, but it could not possibly be obtained, only in the time of the yearly grand Sacrifice, for fear of polluting their holy things, at which time gentlemen of curiosity may see them. Old Bracket, an Indian of perhaps 100 years old, lives in that old beloved town, who gave the following description of them:

 Old Bracket's account of the five copper and two brass plates under the beloved cabbins in Tuccabatchey - Square.

The shape of the five copperplates; one is a foot and half long and seven inches wide, the other four are shorter and narrower. |

  The shape of the two brass plates, - about a foot and a half in diameter. drawing:  circle with 2 large dots at top, with AE and note: The largest stamped thus
 He said he was told by his forefathers that those plates were given to them by the man we call God; that there had been many more of other shapes, some as long

as he can stretch with both his arms, and some had writing upon them which were buried with particular men; and that they had instructions given with them, viz: they must only be handled by particular people, and those fasting; and no unclean women must be suffered to come near them or the place where they are deposited. He said none but this town's people had any such plates given them, and that they were a different people from the Creeks. He only remembered three more which were buried with three of his family, and he was the only man of the family now left. He said, these were two copper plates under the king's cabbin, which had lain there from