The Cherokee is one of the few so-called savage nations which is _increasing_, and not _de_creasing, in numbers. It is, also, the most industrial of all the American families; the Cherokee landholder having, in some cases, as much as five hundred acres under tillage, and possessing slaves as well. Lastly, a native Cherokee has reduced the language to writing--the alphabet (which will be noticed in the sequel) being syllabic. THE CHOCTAHS. _Area._--Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, parts of Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. _Bounded_ by the Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, the Catawba, the Cherokee, and the South Algonkin areas. _Divisions._--_a._ Choctahs _b._ Muscogulges, Muskohges, or Creeks. _Sub-divisions._--_a._ Of the Choctahs, the Chikkasahs. _b._ Of the Creeks, the Hitchittee and Seminoles. The Choctahs flatten the head. The Choctah civilization is partially industrial, differing but little from that of the Cherokee. The Choctah family has, probably, been a family of _encroaching_ area, the population which it displaced being represented by-- THE UCHÉ. _Locality._--The Coosa River. _Synonym._--Probably the Apalaches of De Soto. _Language._--as known from a single vocabulary, peculiar. Also by-- THE COOSADA. _Conterminous_ with the Uché, and said to speak a peculiar language, but which is not known from any vocabulary. Also by-- THE ALIBAMONS. _Conterminous_ with the Uché, and said to speak a peculiar language; but which is not known from any vocabulary. We now see that a separate group of tribes or families, aboriginal to Florida, but now replaced by Creeks, has existed within a recent period. We also see that these groups may have been as many as three in number; since it by no means follows that, because the Uché, Coosadas, and Alibamons are different from the Choctahs, they must be allied to each other. Again,--one or more of the extinct tribes of South Carolina may have been an element (and a fresh one too) in the population of Florida. That such was the case with the Yamassis is almost certain, since they were destroyed by the Seminoles during the last century. Hence, when we hear that the Creek confederacy was formed upon either the extermination or incorporation of fifteen families, we have a measure of the multiform character of the ethnology of Florida and Alabama. CADDOS. _Locality._--Between the rivers Mississippi and Sabine. _Language._--Known by a vocabulary. Not closely connected with any other. Most like the Cherokee.