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lords of the land. I contemplated the tranquil abodeof our first parents in the garden, and felt happy fora moment, which was succeeded by the reflectionon Jonah's gourd, which it most resembled. I felta necessity to breathe for the approach of that peace-ful and blessed day, when every man shall sit underhis own vine, and fig-tree, and none shall make him afraid. This afternoon, two young Wyandots arrived.They looked wild and afraid. One of them was introduced to Gen. Lincoln, and handed him a mes-sage in writing, importing that the several treatiesheld at Fort McIntosh, Miami, Muskingum, &;c. where lands had been ceded by two or three nations only, were not valid; as they had no right to dispose of lands. And as for the large sums of money pro-posed to be paid down for the country, they did not want it; and a great many of them did not know the use of it. Therefore, desired it might be applied, with the proposed yearly salary, to the indemnifica-tion of the settlers north of the Ohio. And as theysupposed they were mostly poor people, or else theywould not have settled on disputed lands; that there-by they might be induced to move off; and makethe Ohio the boundary. For it was their land — the country to the westward was filled up — they had nowhere else to repair to, and they were determinedto lay their bones in it. As to the concessions, the commissioners proposed to make, by giving money, they did not want it: next, running a new line, wasbut giving them a part of their own land; and as to disclaiming the right to all their country, by virtueof the peace made with the king, their father, theyknew they were never conquered, and it could not