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28 They would visit G. Bay the next season. On Their return to N. york they also addressed a Letter similar in it's import to the Secretary of war. Some days previous to our departure from Detroit, Rev. Dr. Morse returned from G. Bay, who confirmed the report we had heard, viz: that the U. States Agent Col. Bowyer had purchased a tract of land bordering on the mouth of the fox river. "The real Chiefs" says Rev. Dr. Morse "of the nation were so decidely opposed to the sale of this land,/ a tract of forty miles square, intersected by fox river from its mouth upward/ that they refused to attend the treaty at the invitation of the agent, who, in consequence was