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To the foregoing answer of the Indian Nations, the Commissioners immediately made the following reply, I delivered it to the two Wyandot runners who brought the answer.-

    "To the Chiefs & Warriors of the Indian Nations assembled at the foot of the Mismis Rapids."
    " Brothers, we have just recd your answer, dated the 13th inst. to our speech of the 31st of last

month, which we delivered to your Deputies at this place. You say it was interpreted to all your Nations; & we presume it was fully understood. We therein explicitly declared to you, that it was now im possible to make the river Ohio the boundary between your lands & the lands of the U. S. Your