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325 penciled at top of page - also 29 ness it was to provide new fire, made it in the usual way, by whisking the end of a stick swiftly round in a socket partly filled with dry goldenrod weed, till the weed took fire. This fire was kindled, and kept burning with seven kinds of wood, vir. Black jack, locust, Post oak, Sycamore, Red bud, Plum and Red oak. Lower, dry limbs were broken from the above trees, for the fire. None must be picked off of the ground. The same morning, also, at day break, the seven appointed to cleanse the houses etc. commenced their labours. They swept the council house in every part, and took out all the old ashes. They repaired the altar of earth for sacrifice. This was in the center of the house, raised about a foot above the common earth and rounded on the top. This they swept, and covered with new clean earth. They then whitewashed anew the three sacred white seats, and their upright wide backs, and also all the other white seats, and the bench, standing near the altar, on which the goards to be used on the occasion were put. They also whitewashed these goards, and the pot in which the articles for purification were to be boiled, and also all the joists and posts of the house. They then took the new fire and kindled it on the altar, and sat on the pot. They then walked round the fire four times, now and then striking the note ewe or yew i.e. long u, and then raising a whoop. After this ceremony, they took the white goards, and went to a spring of living water (T. Smith) filled their goards, and returned, - walked once round the fire, - poured the water into the pot, and put the goards again onto the white bench. They then went