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above the town, look well & appear healthy. The Indians begin to be attentive to them & are increasing them by all the means in their power. Several of them have from 50 to 100 and the town furnished 70 good beef cattle in 1799. One chief - Took,au,bat,che Haujo has 500 & altho apparently very indigent, never sells any; while he seems to deny himself the comforts of life, he gives continued proofs of unbounded hospitality. He seldom kills less than two large beaves a fortnight for his friends & acquaintances. The town is on the decline. Its appearance unclear the inattention of the inhabitants. It is badly fenced. They have but a few plum trees & several clumps of Casrine? Yupon?. The land is much exhausted with continued culture & the wood for fuel at a great & inconvenient distance, unless boats or land carriages were in use - it could then be easily supplied. The river is navigable for boats drawing 2 1/2 feet in the dry season from just above the town to Alabama.