The Provisions & other Incidental Expences attends this Treaty were unavoidable from the Number of Indians, & the Length of time it took up. The Amount of the Goods and Cash given on the part of the Crown was the most moderate that could have been offered for so Valuable &, Extensive a cession, Upon the whole I flatter myself that this Transaction will be honored with his Majestys Approbation, from a consideration of the difficulties that attended it, & the important advantages to be derived from it if strictly adhered to.

As I am now busied in Giving some necessary belts and Messages to the Shawanese, and some others who have taken this rout buck to their Country, and at the . same time desirous to communicate by the earliest opportunity an event of such Importances I must for the present deferr saying any thing farther on this subject, and with a perfect reliance on your Lordships favorable reception of this pacquet. Beg leave to subscribe myself with all possible respect. My Lord,

Your Lordships most obliged Tlie Rt honble & most faithfuil humble seiv*.

The Earl of Hillsborough.

920 MANUSCRIPTS OF

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

CONCERNING THE LAKE SUPERIOR COPPER MINES.

Johnson-hall, December 20th, 1768.

My Lord,

On my return from Fort Stanwix I had ,the honor to receive your Lordships of the 13^^. August (N°. 5) with the enclosures concerning the Application to his Majesty for a Grant of Copper Mints near Lake Superior directing me toma^e enquirys concerning the same, to which I sho^. have paid all due obedience sooner, but for the Pacquets & Dispatches I had to make up, and the multiplicity of affairs I had to order and regulate in consequence of the late Treaty.