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and it is very likely that Cowee because the parent of the settlement they made on the Koo, wah, hee (Kewehe) & Too, goo, lalo (Tugalo) rivers; and the settlement in the valley towns became the parent of those on the big Tellico; and the nation been being thus established as their final place of rest, - the concluding part of their emigration is here introduced as testimonial of their rights of the soil by the gifts of the power above, - Cho, tau, le, eh (Grand elders of all) Cau, lauh, we, tah - oo, da, kne-la, eh (Their council been convened) Cau, ske, lo, gi, eh - Cheu, na, ka, se, eh (on their seats of white) Tay, che, eeh, - Cau, le, lut, te, rh (kept above) and may be rendered thus:- "Grand Elders, or Sires of all, their council been convened, on their benches or seats of white, kept above" and it is represented that [it was] this Council above that give this country to our forefathers; and some believe that this was the centre of the continent where the forefathers were placed, being been at the extreme heads of the southern & western water; but this last part of the emigration oration will be found to be missing - that which bestowed the gift on the fathers of the Cherokees, of which there is no traces of it, more than what is represented above; and the nation being been thus established in four divisions, and in a country, too, that was calculated to supply themselves with food from the abundance of the wild game of all kinds which much abounded on the first arrival in this country; beside, they had other resources to obtain their subsistence from the waters also; with the wild potatoe,* which must have grown in abundance in these prairies. Beside these advantages they were in a situation to provide for their families from the inclemency of the cold, with warm wigwams from the long blue grass which grows in these prairies, where their settlements were established, where there's no such grass grows with such abundance only in these settlements; and the antiquity appearance of the first two settlements of the Lands
- resembling the Irish potatoe - not used now, but formerly much used by the Cherokees.