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165 1820

 "The body of this nation is in the north-west part of Georgia, and a few in the north-east part of Alabama, and the south-east part of Tennessee.  The tract of country belonging to the Cherokees, before their late cessions were made to the United States, was 250 miles, greatest length, and from 100 to 150 broad, comprising about 24,000 square miles, generally of an excellent soil, in a fine, healthy climate, variegated with mountains & plains, watered by the Tennessee, and it norther & southern branches, and the head branches of some of the rivers that pass into the gulf of Mexico"   App: to report of Merle, p: 152. -