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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
, Ed. IV. occasion to employ. The opinion of the acute Vater was in favor of its original character; and, by the Mithridates, III 285. persevering curiosity of Gallatin, it is at last known that the Natchez were distinguished from the tribes around them less by their customs and the degree of their civilization than by their lan were thought to number many more than thirty thousand, perhaps even fifty thousand, souls; yet, according to the more exact enumeration of 1639, they could not Gallatin, 70. have exceeded ten thousand. In the heart of a wilderness, a few cabins seemed like a city; and to the pilgrim, who had walked for weeks without meeting a hno echo is to reach us, men of one American family had bowed to the sun in the southern valley of the Mississippi and within the tropics. The Chiti- Du Pratz. Gallatin. mechas of Louisiana, improperly confounded with the Natchez, were on the same low stage of civilization with the Chechemecas, who are described as having Clavi