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views of the government with respect to them. It is of importance that you should impress upon the Oneidas of whom you may have influence that you have them only for a time, with the view of exploring the country to the west and in concert with their chiefs to ascertain, whether any spot can be selected to which those of your countrymen who may be so inclined, may, as their own act & without any compulsion, remove, in the expectation of permanently advancing their improvement in religion & in the arts of civilized life. You must tell the Oneidas