Note 259 — GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS; DISPLAYING (continued 2)
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Jones, op. cit., 311, citing Du Pratz, II, 225, and Loskiel’s History, etc., 67. Even the whites, in their first year on the frontier, of necessity used the mortar, and as late as 1820 in the Old Southwest. Williams, Beginnings of West Tennessee.