Lake Superior, ettc. ple, who are scattered throughout the Northern Parts and who having few places of fixed residence, subsisting entirely by hunting, cannot be ascertained as those ot their confederacy, residing near the outposts.

THE IROQUOIS AND OTHER INDIAN TRIBES.

OTTAWA CONFEDERACY-- continued. Number Names.

of men.

Scituation.

Remarks.

Reside about the Illinois River and We have hitherto had nothing to do hence to the Mississippi. with these people, who are numerous and variously computed. The Six Nations claim their country, but their right of conquest thereto does not appear so clear as to the rest, as represented in the letter herewith.

Illinois

number uncertain.

Reside in the country westward of

Sioux

number uncertain

The Sioux who are the most numerous

of the Northern Indians, are little known to us, they [One line cut off here in binding the original.'] Mississippi, they are much addicted to not appear well affected to the Western Indians, and promise to send wandering and live mostly in camps. Deputies to me in the spring.

November 18 th 1763. ,

William Johnson.

II.

PAPERS RELATING TO

tl)e first Settlement at (Dnontraaa,

THE DISCOVERY OF THE SALT SPRINGS AT SALINA.

2ltmo

1654--8.

VOYAGE OF FATHER SIMON LE MOINE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE IROQUOIS ONONDAGOES, IN JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1654. [Relation de la N. France es annees, 1653 and 1654.]

On the second day of the month of July, the festival of the Visitation of the Most Holy Virgin always friendly to our undertakings, Father LeMoine departed from Quebec on a voyage to the Iroquois Onondagoes. He passed Three Rivers, and from thence by Montreal, where a young man of good courage, and an old habitant, joined him, with much piety.