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municated from the head to the mouth of the Wabash,-from this to the Mississippi, and up that river until it strikes the lakes, thence round by Michillimackanack until they come back again to the same place. What we say to you does not come from one, but from many, and what you have now said to us, you speak it to but a few, but it shall be communicated to many. Brothers and Friends, I observed to our friends, the Quakers of Philadelphia, five days ago, what I say now to you, that we wish our brothers, the Quakers, to render us those services they have proposed. We promise that nothing shall be wanting on our part to give aid to so desirable a thing in our country. Our situation at present will not admit of carrying such a plan so fully into execution as we could desire, but I hope you may not be prevented from ma-king trial. If we had such tools as you make use of, and which add so much to your comfort- for we have been lost in wonder at what we have seen among you,-if we had these instruments, we should, I hope, be willing to use them. From the great things, and astonishing wonders, which we have seen among you, and finding they all come out of the earth, it makes me anxious to try if I cannot get some for my-self. He then expressed his regret that the move-ments of the Friends towards the Indians had