SO great an Expense as is necessary for Convening all those Indians Avho should attend on such an occasion, without particular Orders, and I have the Satisfaction to find that herein I acted for the best, as from your Lordship's last Letter I observe that in case I am of opinion that it may be of ill consequence, His Majesty will ratify the boundary agreeable to the Treaty, to which I have only to add that since my last Tour into the Indian Country I find my former opinion so much strengthened, that I think it highly prudent to decline the mention of the affair unless I receive y Lordship's orders to the contrary, or that something should occur that may justify jpe in so doing.

Xhe Rt hon^ble The Earl of Hillsborough Endorsed

« (No 10.) August 21st 1769, To the Earl of Hillsborough."

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Johnson Hall Augt 26th 1769.

My Lord

Having had the honor to write your Lordship on the Subject of the Boundary & Cession which Letter accompanys this I am now to give your Lordship an Account of the Transactions during my late tour through the Countrey of the Six Nations.

I left home on the 26th June and after many delayS| arrived at Onondaga the lO^h July where I found the Chiefs &<= of that nation wdth Sev' others from the Neighbouring Villages who being 'in great want of Indian Corn from a failure of their Crops I gave them a Supply of that & Sev^ other Articles, & previous to my Gen' Meeting held Sev' private conferences with the Chiefs at their Hunting Cabbins returning from one of which in the night. My Canoe overset, & in ascending the bank I rec^ a very Severe Cut by a fall on my wounded leg which had very nigh rendered me incapable of proceeding, however on finding myself a little easier I held a Congress with them 2 days after which they opened with a Speech wherein they made many enquiries after news, & whether a War was not to be commenced between England France & Spain, They said they were well assured of