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ereign who had never seen it, a Country over which the proudest & most daring of his officers had never surveyed. The Unites States acquainted with the instability of Savage Nations of calculating on the surrender of their Lands by treaty or otherwise.purchased of Georgia the preemption right of all the Indian Lands in question, [[into?]which they as a State she asserted a claim. Georgia had no right, had she the power to drive, {scratched out - a purchase from the] from the purchase of the Indians those lands, having previously surrendered her right of making Treaties & of trade, to the United States. Georgia very well knew, that the Cherokees, under the protection of the U. States, lived nearest to her Jurisdictional limits, which rendered their territory the more desirable. They were connected to the U States by treaty, which guaranteed to them their lands. They were in their native, untutored state and delighted in hunting. The Enterprizing Sons of N. Carolina & Virginia had already greatly esc-