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consulted for the same purpose by the people, in large bodies, on certain occasions. For example, on the great moon, at which the ancient cherokee commenced their civil years. This time being come, before sunrise in the morning the priest of each town would gather all the men, women, and children of the place into one building, and seating them in rows with their faces turned towards the east would open a crack in the side of the place, and so set his Divining Chrystal there, as to catch the rays of the rising sun. Receding about your feet, with his eyes rivetted on the stone, and his face turned towards the sun, he would make a prayer. As he would pray, it is unclear that the chrystal because brighter and brighter till a brightness as dazzling as that form a mirror with the glare of midday fall upon it, would first strike the under side of the roof, and then moving back and forth and then descending lower and lower, it would at length glance towards the people as they sat. Over such as were to die before the unclear of another quarterly new moon, the light would pass without the least illumination of their persons. Unclear unclear of their superstition over that they have actually known instances wherein this