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feathered cloaks, which in point of beauty & magnificence were nearly equal to that of any nation in the world. (3 Cook's voyages, 17.) Fans were made there also, of the fibres of the cocoa nut, the tail feathers of the cock and of the tropic bird, and also feathered caps. In 1730, the Indians of North Carolina used feathered match-coats, exceedingly pretty, says Dr Brickell; some of which, he also remarks, are beautifully wrought with a variety of colours & figures, which seem at a distance like a fine flowered silk shag. When new & fresh, he continues, they serve for a bed instead of a quilt. Some match-coats, he says, were made of hair, or racoon, beaver or squirrel skins; others again were made of the green part of the skin of the mallard's head, or other fowls, which they stitch or sow perfectly well together; their thread being the sinews of a deer divided very small, or silk grass. When these were finished, they looked very beautiful.] Did not these skeletons belong to persons of the same race with those white people, who were extirpated in part, & in part driven from Kentucky, and probably also from west Tennessee, as Indian tradition reports?

At the place where old John Curry formerly lived, in the county of Williamson, on the banks of Mill Creek, not far below the head, is a cave, in length 20 or 30 feet from the mouth to the back, and six or eight feet wide.