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                                    miles.  width in feet.

Murder Creek 8. 20. A belt of pine land - 5 by 4 ms. clay Burnt Corn 12. 10: Between these Creeks on the left Lime Stone 5. a small branch of Alabama - Little Escambia 4. 20. waters of Sto,ne,cau Escambia 9. 90. ditto.

   The pine lands commence near Burnt Corn around the lead of Limestone to the two Escambias and to Ko,ne,cau. Half way from Burnt Corn to little Escambia, the pine land loses the quality of clay & is sandy - The pine, tall & large.
                                Indian Treaties
  Treaty at Augusta 1st of June 1773.

By Sir James Wright & John Stewart with the Cherokees & Creeks.

 This treaty fixes the eastern bounds of the Cherokees to be from the tree marked by the Cherokees near the head of a trunk falling into the Oconee River and from thence

to Savannah river.

   Treaty at Hopewell 28th Nov. 1785.
 From Tugalo River "thence a direct line to the top of Currohe mountain; thence to the head of the South fork of Oconee River."
   In 1803 at the Treaty near fort Wilkinson - This boundary admitted by the Creeks, -& that a line from the high shoals of  Apalatchee along the old path to