western tribes;' In this alliance, the Iroquois
themselves figure, as proposers, by a delegation,
of the measure. Extensive invitations were given
by the Cherokees to the tribe's around; and after
some delays, the alliance was entered into by
all the tribes .south arid, west, bub the Osages.
Hence it Was said that the Osages sho uld be like
a wild fruit tree on the prairies, which every
bird should pick a t; and they, have remained to
our day, a predatory tribe.
This general alliance, to which, however, we
have no date, put a stop to the Cherokee and
Iroquois wars. Thus far Watie. -
The language &f this nation,, .although generally
and fundamentally different -from the Iroquois,
has, yet some' affinities with the Mohawk,
The words fire, pipe, cow, fox;flint, &c., have, apparently,
the same radices; A horse they Call by
the name of pack, as the first animal of this kind
they ever saw, was packed; carrying goods into
their country. They first traded with the Spanish
at St; Augustine, Florida. Philadelphia they
Call Canastoga. Americans they ealLby #name
which signifies Virginians*—the first men of this
race, they ever saw, being -Virginians. The
Mississippi river they call by a name whichde-
notes Falling-in-banks. The ancient Lenni Le-
napees, or Delawares, they call, like the Algon-
quins generally, by the title of grandfather. • They
speak of long wars with the Six Nations, with
the Shawnees, and with the Creeks. The latter
they call Coosa, which means a creek or stream.
The following names; in this language, convey
some idea of its rythmatic flow, in combination.
Uhicau is the ^herokee name of White river, in
Arkansas and Missouri. It signifies a white
river, was to the ban^s of this stream that
the. first western Cherokee emigrant removed,
from the body of the eastern Cherokees.,. I found
them, in this posiriohé^in the year 1818. The
same name^yith a slight change, of inflection,
had been asfiéiently applied >y them to a white-
capped mountain in Mississippi* which the present
inhabitantsvof the .region; have accommodated
to sound of UniG&rn mountain. In this
manneT- a significant aboriginal name is some-
’i^pAps peryerted. A macalolai, is the name of a pic- .
turesque watetfall on the rivers Etowah, in the
ancient area of the Cherokees, in Georgia. The
signification of the word, in. this language &, tumbling
waiter, from ama, water; and fialola, sliding,
r olling, or tumbling.' The volume of water is not
great, unless in flood, but the fall. is. thought to
he the highest in theTJnion. It is seen in passing
on the turnpike road from Dahlongea-to the
Tennessee line. Tah-loo-lah, a water -fall of the
river of the same, name, sixty miles east of Ama-
calola, where the stream, which is one of tolerable
* size, is .suddenly pitched into a chasm of the
rock. The rock seems to have been rent asunder
by some geological convulsion. To the
lovers of the sublime it is a fine prospect. The
etymology of the name is not certainly known.
It appears from a Cherókee lady to have been