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next principal chief to the Little Turkey, whose oratory talents were inferior to none of any native in his time; and the traditions mention that our forefathers came from the course where the sun rises; and the first account that is given, [speaks] of only two resting places in their emigration before they finally reached on the lands of their rest: and the first of which is mentioned was at ah, nee, cah, nyungh, lee, yeh*, which have references to some large mountains lying somewhere between the head waters of the Holsten, the Clinch Little? Cumberland water: and their other next? was somewhere noh, nah, cllck, ungh*; and from this rest it is presumeable the nation seperated, although there is no account given in the traditions: but it is stated that the Third Settlement was at a place called the Two Sparrows-tully-aeh-chesquah-yaw-aeh-lying on the head of Tuckelechee river, fork of the Little Tenessee,- and no doubt this part of the nation came up the french Broad River, and from this it may justly be concluded that they extended their settlements on Cowee & Highwassee Echota [old Echota} on the little Tenassee, but not till many years after of those those two First Settlements mentioned;

• the place of antiquity. *The place of the cypress tree on the Roanoke, [unclear] near Fort Lewis, this side of Salem.