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authority to considered necessary to make this (unclear) valid, there is time enough now to send it on before I can meet the Indians on that business. My mind is a little unsettled as to the conditions upon which I ought to close the bargain with the Indians. The number of acres will probably not exceed half a million, neither is the quantity of good land considerable, yet it is of vast importance to Georgia, as it stretches all along the (Ockmulges?) River for at least sixty miles if perfectly consistent. I would be (unclear rest of line) the subject. you recollect you have expressed a willingness to receive my communications, and I propose making them in the old fashioned and familiar way to which I have been accustomed, (I mean private correspondence) and with that candor and franknes which I know you admire, as well as I do, and if I ask any thing which it may be proper in you to avoid, you have only to say so, and I shall be as well content as if you had satisfied my inquiry; at the same time I beg you to consider any facts which I may communicate in a private letter as communicated privately, and for the purpose of putting you in possession of matter privately, which however you may make use of publickly if necessary, in giving your opinion upon them, and if necessary I will support them by an official communication & proof. In a short time I shall be able to give you some account of an expedition which Genl. Gaines has had in contemplation against the Seminoles for some months past