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generally called Town House), is built in a circular form, with perpendicular walls six or eight feet high; from thence it ends at a point, giving the roof a conical form, which is supported in the interior by posts. From the floor to the highest point of the roof is from fifteen to twenty feet. Puncheons are laid around on the inside to serve as seats. The house is covered with the bark of forest trees, confined on with the bark of hickory shrubs, the hickories themselves, or white oak shreds. A door-way is left in building the house; -- on the inside, -- opposite this doorway, -- an angular wall is constructed for the purpose of preventing the wind from sweeping through the centre of the house; and on the outside a small shed or portico is made; and in front of this is a level yard laid off in a square, and made smooth for the purpose of dancing, on particular occasions.

The Cherokees, like the American Indians generally, are of a copper colour. The features of many are regular; their form, on an average, far exceeds that of the whites, in point of symmetry. Cases