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adjoining States, is in hogs & horned Cattle. Skins formerly were sold in respectable quantities but that kind of trade is fast declining & getting less reputable. Cherokees on the Tennessee river have already commenced to trade in cotton & growth article in large plantations and they have realized very handsome profit. All those who have it in their power are making preparatory to grow it for market & it will soon be the staple commodity of traffic for word lined out the Nation

    You will be able more fully to ascertain this state of improvement by giving the out lines of their Government. Having been honored with a seat, in its National Councils, I have better acquaintance with this branch of your enquiry, than any other. All Indian Nations are either devided  into tribes, distinguished by different names & these are sub devided into Towns. In each of these tribes or Towns are of course some men, prominent for valor humanity & wisdom. The Assemblage of such men forms their Council fire. They are a housing body & indefinitely so in number, of warriors - they possess within themselves ---