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365 penciled at top of page. Also 15 Salt. underscored Anciently the Cherokees took the moss growing in the bottom of rivers and creeks, and dried and burnt it to ashes. These ashes were washed, and the lie boiled down to the consistency of shaving soap, & then used instead of salt. Soap. Sometimes simple lie was used for washing; but when it could be obtained the large root of the weed called se li goi yi, was pounded and put in the lie, which had in a good degree the power of soap in making sudse, & rendered the lie excellent for washing. Glue. Glue was made of deers horns pounded boiled etc. Red paint was made by burning a kind of soft red stone, and then pounding it to powder. There was also a kind of yellow dirt, which when burnt becomes red. White paint was made of white clay, dried & pounded & mixed with deers tallow, or used as a white wash mixed with water.