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poor, and few in number, And many ^by that practice fell into
nothing and is now no more - the Creek Nation is composed
of about seventeen different tribes, yet they do not the whole
of them amount to five thousand warriors- I mention this
about the creeks because they know it to be a fact -

The Indian nations are as old as the white, and have
been as numerous, but now there is a million of white persons,
to that of one Indian - There [sic] peculiar practices, and
manner of living has been the cause, therefore it is time for
the present existing tribes, to Quit the old forms -

A large trading town at the Muscell Shoals would be
the making of their country, every thing can be brought there
by water, and a probabillity that every thing would be
as cheap, as at Philadelphia, or any other place -

Contrast that place with tellico, and show them the
advantage the Shoals would have, by suffering every
body to carry on trade, at a place, where every thing
would be received for goods, and not confined to skins
and furs - those last articles will soon be done away
What then will be their condition if other arrangements
is not made to receive such things as they can make,
and raise in their country. If a town was settled at
the Shoals, in the room of one store, there might soon be
several hundred, and everyone trying to sell lowest -