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When the conjurers here alluded to want rain, they pray for clouds to be sent, first, by the great mountains then, by the plains; then, by the otter; and,last of all, by the corn above, who fixed the white seats on the mountains, They supplicate that this corn above will entreat the Greater, meaning the moon, to send the cloud out of the mountains upon the corn below.

Having concluded the prayer, they go, waist-deep, into a stream. They sing to all the objects just enumerated. While singing, they throw water into the air with both hands, and dive. Arising, they look up the stream. If rain is to come soon, a snake appears approaching them in the water.

When the weather happened to be too cold, the people would assemble at the Town Council House. Seven men are there selected to gather seven large bundles of sticks, with: one of peach, one of plum, one of mulberry, one of locust, one of black-jack (a low kind of red oak), one of grape vine, and one of a large kind of unclear-berry growing into the old Cherokee country east of the Mississippi, on or near brooks, and some eight