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and lands and woods around them, will justify a belief [that] they were the first that was established in this nation & etc.

The two foregoing parts of the emigration orations have been related as near as I have heard them repeated, and should it ever be thought worthy of notice to consult these outlines of these traditions by future history of this nation, he can consult this own judgement on these nations, as mentioned in this number, as to satisfy himself whether the nation did believe their emigration to this country by invisible signs directed under the divine agency; and the lands they claimed by the gift from the council of the elder fires above, for the word Cho, tauh, ne, le, eh, implies both the elder brother, as [will well as] Elder fire of all - for he is acknowledged to have had a being before all other things etc, etc, etc.

I am respectfully yours,

Ch: R. Hicks.

John Ross President if the National Committee