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ng into the presence of mountains. On the morning of the twenty-seventh, the whole chap. XV.} 1760. party began their march early having a distance of eighteen miles to travel to the town of Etchowee, the nearest of the middle settlements of the Cherokees. Let Montgomery be wary, wrote Washington; he has a subtle enemy, that may give him most trouble when he least expects it. The army passed down the valley of the Little Tennessee, along the mountain stream which, taking its rise in Rabun County in Georgia, flows through Macon County in North Carolina. Not far from Franklin, their path lay along the muddy river with its steep clay banks, through a plain covered with the dense thicket, overlooked on one side by a high mountain, and on the other by hilly, uneven ground. Gentleman's Magazine, XXX. 442 At this narrow pass, which was then called Crow's Creek, the Cherokees emerged from an ambush. Adair's History, 252. Morrison, a gallant officer, was killed at the head of the a