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to make some introductory communications,pertaining to the nature of our business, andthen read the following, which we had prepared andwritten down on the 22nd was read and interpreted. To Cornplanter, and all our Indian brothers of theSeneca Nation now living on the AlleghanyRiver. Brothers. We have now been several daysamong you, and have had councils with yourChiefs and wisemen, and have looked about yourcountry, and have agreed upon a place for our youngmen to begin upon. We are glad and thankful tothe Great Spirit, that every thing we have proposedfor your good, has been so agreeable to your minds, thatwe seem to agree like brothers, having but one mind ineverything we do: and we hope, brothers, we shallcontinue to be of one mind about all things, wehave been speaking to you of. Brothers, you know the place we have chosenfor our young men to begin upon at Genesinguhta;and we hope some of your young men will settleby them, and fence off lots for themselves, as theysee our young men fence of theirs. Our young men will be willing to assist and in-struct them in working their lots. We do not think our young men will be able to