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   River, he exclaimed and all the Country on the other side of that River is mine. *
  Perhaps [strikethrough: never] so bold or daring an address? was never made [strikethrough: heretofore], to any Councils of Indians, by an individual Chief.  But its

right to be noticed; that White Eyes had here spoken on the strength of what the commission next had said and promised at the Treaty -- In what these had said, he placed full confidence. He took it for granted, that the Senecas would join the English against the American People, and therefore loose the Land they had so artfully wrested from the Delawares, and in the firm belief, that his Nation would keep the Peace, he had a right to lay a claim to it. Moreover his expectation went to this: that should the 6 Nations in consequence of the Language he had made use of to them, take up Arms against his Nation -- these being friends of the American People and at peace with them, they would assist them, in fighting for their just rights.

  The report of Capt. White Eyes' declaration to the Senecas, having become known to his Nation; some feared the consequence of such

• It must be remarked, that the Indian unclear always speak in the singular number, tho meaning the Nation.