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present ely or Rome, Ga, and where now stands the city of Gadsden, on the coosa; also at Gunter's Landing. on the Tennessee; in Browns valley and In Wills valley, thence on down the Indian trail to the Eyton spring camping ground which was a very popular trad ing poiet, and from there down the val ley precisely the same route that Is used now. to the Indian Mound camping place. on the banks of the creek at old Jones' boro, and onward to Black Warrior Falls fnow Tusealoosa) where canoe trans portation to Mobile could be had at any time.
 Mud Town. on the Cahawba liver, was once very important trading point, and political meeting place of the Indians and while not renowned for it's architect- ure or the wealth of it's citizens it became powerful enough to incur the wrath of the United States government, and in the archives of the war department at Wash inston it's name stands forth very proml- nently. and in oiden times trade of sev eral thousand dollars a year was trans acted there. Many canoe richly laden went down the Cahawba river to it's june tion with the Alabama, and on to Mo bile.
 ''The Antiquities of Mexico.' to which reference has been made, must have been a magnificent work In eight volumes, folio, many of it's illustrations being steel ensravings. At that period the dominion of Mexico covered all the territory now known as Texas; hence any authentic n formation concerning the vast territory lying on the borders of the gulf and south Atlantic was of interest From the days of Cortez and Pizarro, through the centuries that witnessed the Spanish gal Icons coming home laden with eargoes of silver and other precious metals. all Eu- rope regarded the mineral wealth of the new world as it's most desirable feature, thinking but little and caring less for It's agricultural and industrial development, their interest in the Indians consisting of a desire to convert them to Christianity and obtain their trade, and when it suited them. their lands They were thoroughly convinced that they could never make Slaves of them. Adair told them of mil lions of acres that would yield bountiful crops of corn, wheat, oats, cotton, tobac- co and indigo, of coal lying upon the rivers banks, where it had been washed out by heavy rains, and a mountain of iron ore extending in length of a whole days travel, hardly 50 miles from Black Warrior Falls. and good sized river from there to the seaport of Mobile. This had much to do in arousing the interest of Lord Kingsborough.
 Tn a volume by Benjamin Smith Barton. M. D., correspondent member of Ameri- can Philosophical society, entitled. New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" published in Phil adelphia by John Bioren in the year 1797. he gives a comparative vocabulary of 54 words of a number of northern tribes with the Cherokees. and quotes Adair as his authority on the latter tribe.
 One 0f inc ao1ast works evpf. written upon the early history of our territory was by William Bartram, entitled. "Trav- els through North and South Carolina, Georgia, east and west Florida, the Cher oSee country, the extensive territories Of the Museogulges, or Creek Confectionery, and the country of the Choctaws: contain ing an account of the soil and natural production of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians; embellished with copper plates; printed in Philadelphia in the year 1791, by James & Johnson; in London In 1792, pages 522 List of the towns and tribes in league and which constitute the pow erful confederacy or empire of the Creeks or Muscogulges, and an account of the persons. manners, customs and govern ment of the Museogulges or Creeks, Cherokees and Choctaws. aborigines of the continent of North America copies in the Congressional Library, British Mu- scum and Massachusetts Historical soc- ety. One of his resting places was at the Mound Camp Ground, where the ven- ison was the best he ever tasted. (This was the site in subsequent years of Old Jonesboro). He also camped at another favorte spot of the Indians, the bold and beautiful McMath spring. This book was very influential in Europe being published in complete form in the city of Dublin, Ireland, in the year 1793, for J. Moore, w. Jones, J. Rice and R. McAllister. There is a copy of this Dublin edition in the Boston Atheneum.
 And in Berlin in the year 1793, an nounced as follows: "William Bartram's Riesen durch Nord-and Sud Karolina, Georgien, Ost and West Florida, das Gibet der Tscherokesen, Krihks und Tschaktahs nebst unstandlichew Nachrichten von den Einwohnern dem Boden und den Natur- produkten dieser weng bekannten gros- sen Lauder. Aus dem Englishehen. Nit erlan lernden Anmerkungen von F. A. w. Zimmerman, Hofrath and Professor in Braunschweig. Copies in Royal Mu- scum, Berlin, Germany, and in Congress sional Library, Washington.
 Another English edition was published in 1794 by same publisher in London.
 The Carter Brown catalog gives the title of an edition in German, at Bohn and Haarlaem. Germany, 1794; and Sabins Dictionary, number 3S79, gives the title an edition published in Haarem, 1794 and second edition in 1797 and quoting from de-Joug, an edition published in the city of Amsterdam, in the year 17e7
 Also in Paris, France, In the year 1901, under full title as follows
 Voyage daus les parties sud de rAmer- ique septentrionale; Savior; les Carolines SeDtantriOnale ct MeridiOnale Ia Georeia les Florides orientale ct occidentale, le pays des Cherokees, le waste territore des Muscagulges on de Ia confederation Creek ct le pays des Choctaws, contenant des details sur le sol ct les productions natu- relies de ces contrees, ct deS observations. sur les moeurs des Sauvages uui les habi- tent. Par William Bartram; Imprine a Philadelphia, en 1791, ct a Londros, en 17e2, eff trad le Pang. Par P. V. Benoist Tome premier second. A Paris Chez Mar aden, Librarie, rue Parlee, Saint Andre des Ares, Number Is, an TX, 1891. Two volumes, one of 419 and one of 424 pages"
 A similar edition of 4t9 and one of 424 pages was printed in Paris in the year 1799, as follows: Voyage aus les parties sud de -lAmerique septentrionale; Savior, les Carolines septentrionale ct merilionale la Georgie. les F1orides orienta1e ct occi- dentale, etc., etc., A Paris. Chez Carteret ct Brosson. libraries. rue Pierre Sarasin, numbers IS ct z, Dugour ct Durand, rue ct Maison Serpente. An VII, 1799 In two volumes, one 436 pages, one 457. Two H. lustrations and one map; copies in British museum and Congressional Library at Washington. It is thus seen that editions of Bartram's were published in London, Dublin, Paris. Amsterdam, Haarlaem. Bohn, to which can be added a special