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It is perhaps impossible to give a complete list of the old Cherokee towns and their location; but in 1755 the authorities of South Carolina, in remodeling the old and prescribing new regulations for the government of the Indian trade, divided the whole Cherokee country into six hunting districts, viz:

1. Over Hill Towns.—Great Tellico, Chatugee, Tennessee, Chote, Toqua, Sittiquo, and Talassee.

2. Valley Towns.—Euforsee, Conastee, Little Telliquo, Cotocanahut, Nayowee, Tomatly, and Chewohe.

3. Middle Towns.—Joree, Watoge, Nuckasee.

4. Keowee Towns.—Keowee, Tricentee, Echoee, Torsee, Cowee, Torsalla, Coweeshee, and Elejoy.

5. Out Towns.—Tucharechee, Kittowa, Conontoroy, Steecoy, Oustanale, and Tuckasegee.

6. Lower Towns.—Tomassee, Oustestee, Cheowie, Estatoie, Tosawa, Keowee, and Oustanalle.

About twenty years later, Bartram,12 who traversed the country, gives the names of forty-three Cherokee towns and villages then existing and inhabited as follows:

No.	Name.	Where situated.
1	Echoe	On the Tanase east of Jore Mountains.
2	Nucasse
3	Whatoga
4	Cowe
5	Ticoloosa	Inland, on the branches of the Tanase.
6	Jore
7	Conisca
8	Nowe
9	Tomothle	On the Tanase over the Jore Mountains.
10	Noewe
11	Tellico
12	Clennuse
13	Occunolufte
14	Chewe
15	Quanuse
16	Tellowe
17	Tellico	Inland towns on the branches of the Tanase and other waters over the Jore Mountains.
18	Chatuga
19	Hiwasse
20	Chewase
21	Nuanba
22	Tallase	Overhill towns on the Tanase or Cherokee River.
23	Chelowe
24	Sette
25	Chote, great
26	Joco
27	Tahasse
28	Tamahle
29	Tuskege
30	— — Big Island
31	Nilaque
32	Niowe
33	Sinica	Lower towns east of the mountains on the Savanna or Keowe River.
34	Keowe
35	Kulsage
36	Tugilo	Lower towns east of the mountains on Tugilo River.
37	Estotowe
38	Qualatche	Lower towns on Flint River.
39	Chote
40	Estotewe, great	Towns on waters of other rivers.
41	Allagae
42	Jore
43	Naeoche

Mouzon's map of 1771 gives the names of several Lower Cherokee towns not already mentioned. Among these may be enumerated, on the Tugalco River and its branches, Turruraw, Nayowee, Tetohe, Chagee, Tussee, Chicherohe, Echay, and Takwashnaw; on the Keowee, New Keowee, and Quacoretche; and on the Seneca, Acounee.

In subsequent years, through frequent and long continued conflicts with the ever advancing white settlements and the successive treaties whereby the Cherokees gradually yielded portions of their domain, the location and names of their towns were continually changing until the final removal of the nation west of the Mississippi.13