I am now to acquaint You that the Indisposition of the present Governour, and the expectation of y® Sudden Arrival of a new one, has occasicyied the interview proposed at Albany between You & him, this Summer to be deferred, upon which I am commissioned to treat with You, and at the Same time to Assure You that ye Succeeding Governour will meet You as soon as he conveniently can, with presents as usual. You will then have an opertunity of laying before him w*ever is amiss, which will be redressed you mav 'lepend on without any unnecessary delay, till then I expect, r'' oi" ^ iJ will live in perfect Harmony with Your Bretheren the English. A Belt-- '.

bHETIIEREN OF .THE SiX NaTIONS

It Greives me sorely to find the road hither so grown up with weeds, for want of being used, and your Fire almost expireing at

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Onondaga, where it was agreed by the wisdom of 'ar ancestors that it should never be extinguished. You know it vs'as a saying among them that wlien the Fire was out here you would be no longer a People. I am now Sent by Your Brother the Governour to clear the Road, and make up tlie Fire with such wooil as will never bum out, and I earnestly desire You would take care to keep it up. so as to be found always the same when he shall send among You. A Biilt.

Qhetheren of the Six Nations --