Indis resulting from the proposals must be the effect of time, & will solely depend upon the good Conduct, Civil Treatment, & Strict Integrity of the Company's factors who if they can be expected to concur in so doing will doubtless by degrees acquire the system of the Indians and give them favorable prepossessions of the Enghsh, to which the adding some small presents occasionally, or making it in some measure their interest, would greatly contribute : but this must be as yet merely matter of speculation and uncertainty. On the other hand, the neighboring Nations, who are not interested in any advantages which those of Lake Superior may be supposed to enjoy, will probably prejudice them as much as possible against it, & use endeavors from time to time to distress the Company, in which they may be sometimes successfull, for it is most certain that the Jealousy of the Ind" augments as we encrease, & however they may outwardly appear reconciled to such Settlements They consider every Beginning of ours in a very dangerous Light, & are thereby Led to commit acts of Violence before they allow us sufficient time to manifest, by a series of good treatment, the purity of our Intentions. I Judge it my Duty to remark what may Ifappen. At the same time I am of opinion that provided the object is worthy attention, and that the Distance from the Sea, with the other Obstructions and Expences attending it, do not render the plan unprofitable, a Circumstance on which I cannot positively decide, the Inds may be reconciled to the Opening & Working those Mines, and that if strict care be taken to do them Justice in the manner I have already proposed, without any attempts to Private Settlements, or insisting upon Charter Rights as conveying property of soil, there is a prospect of its being enjoyed in security; and that to obtain their Consents the Chiefs of those Nat^ interested sho'^ be assembled, when the whole sho^^ be laid before them without Disguise, or making any promises but such as could and would be fully performed, and that on giving them a present & obtaining their Consent some persons of Interest amongst them sho«^ accompany those who are to prosecute the design and carry the plan into execution, the future Success of which must depend upon the manner in which it is conducted, and upvon the Temper