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Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793

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mankind, to be silent. - Blue Jacket said that should the Commissioners &; Indians meet at a Treaty, and matters like to be ac--commodated, it was his opinion it would be two Months before the business would be compleated. - this day sail'd the Schooner Nancy for Fort Erie, a Merchant Vessell, with a Cargo of Peltry, and Indian-made Maple- Sugar, by this it may appear, that a greater quantity of Sugar is procured from the Indians than is consumed in this part of the Country,how much lower down, the Country is is not supplied in the same way, is what I cannot determine, but from the best information, I am ready to think, that very little foreign Sugar, if any, if any foreign sugar (except refined) is consumed in Upper Canada. 10th. Arrived the Sloop Detroit from Fort Erie, we hear by this Vessell that the-Commissioners had taken their passage in the Dunmore, and may be hourly expected.- The Chippeways in which the