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which they expressed great thankfulness. Tar-hie himself divided the presents between man and man, making no difference for distinction in rank. These Friends were informed by Tarhie, that several years ago he had sent a talk to the In-dian Committee at Baltimore, accompanied by a belt of wampum, worth fifty dollars, and had long been waiting for an answer, but had not yet received one. In consequence of this information, a confer-ence was held at Redstone, between such of the members of the Indian Committee as could be convened there. The result was a request made to four Friends of the neighborhood adjacent to the Indian camp, to visit Tarhie, and inform him that his talk was not received by the Indian Committee, and that his belt of wampum never came to their hands. Also, if he had any thing now to say, he must write again to the Indian Committee. During our stay at Redstone, we had an op-portunity of seeing and admiring the richness of the land between the foot of the Alleghany Mountains and the Monongahela River. The people here seem to live in ease and plenty, and there is scarcely a plantation that does not afford stone coal and sugar trees. The coal is, I think, fully equal in quality to the best Liverpool coal, and is generally used for fuel in the place ofwood; it being much easier and cheaper to pro-