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the noncompliance of the United States with two Articles of the Treaty of Peace - let these Articles be complied with and the Forte shall be immediately complied with evacuated, and, he added, with some degree of warmth - I know the disposition of your people, - what signifies that Pidgeon House - pointing to the Fort - I know you can take it - it is not in the strength the place that I put my dependance, but it is in this, that we have Boston, New York and Philadelphia in Mortgage for your peaceable behaviour. 31st. Rain all these 24 hours almost without intermission - J. Heckenwelder and Doctr. MoCoskry set off for Fort Erie in order to enquire after a passage to Detroit. - This day J.Moore join'd us, and we were visited by Captain Hendrick and some of the Stockbridge Indians, most of whom speak good English, and appear to be a civil well--behaved people. 6mo. 1st. This morning the Rain abated - took a walk up the River.- immediately from the Landing the Bank rises to the heigth of more than 150 feet above the surface of the Water, - the range of high Land, extending each way from the River, about an East and West course - the Land below towards Lake Ontario, being a Level plain,