two days' march from Guaxule, according to one or the other authority.
Garcilaso and Biedma do not mention the name. As Garcilaso states that from
Guaxule to Chiaha the march was down the bank of the same river, which we
identify with the Chattahoochee, the town may have been in the neighborhood of
the present Gainesville. As we have seen, however, it is unsafe to trust the estimates
of distance. Arguing from the name, Meek infers that the town was about Cona-
sauga river in Murray county, and that the river down which they inarched to reach
it was "no doubt the Etowah," although to reach the first named river from the
Etowah it would be necessary to make another sharp turn to the north. From the
same coincidence Pickett puts it on the Conasauga, "in themodern county of Mur-
rav. Georgia," while Jones, on the same theory, locates it " at or near the junction
of the Connasauga and Coosawattee rivers, in originally Cass, now Gordon county."
Here his modern geography as well as his ancient is at fault, as the original Cass
county is now Bartow, the name having been changed in consequence of a local dis-
like for General Cass. The whole theory of a march down the Coosa river rests
upon this coincidence of the name. The same name however, pronounced G&nsd'ffl
by the Cherokee, was applied by them to at least three different locations within
their old territory, while the one mentioned in the narrative would make the fourth.
The others were (1) on Oostanaula river, opposite the mouth of the Conasauga. where
afterward was New Echota, in Cordon