and highly cultivated ficlds and gardens show the work of many hands amis, of the Lake, and Au Glaize appear like one contiuued village for a number of miles, both above and below this place; nor have I ever before beheld sueh immense fields of corn in The margins of those beautiful rivers-the Mi- any part of America, from Canada to Florida"

All these villages were burnt, and all these cornfields de stroyed; the Indians were followed np and defeated in a sharp fight. The British agents did their best to keep them hostile, and no inconsiderable aid was furnished to them from Canada. But after a wiuter of suffering and hnnger, and great vacilla tions of purpose, they finally decided to yield to the inevitablc, and in the surmmer of 1795 they assembled in council, for the purpose of making a treaty; once more to be told by the representatives of the United States Government that "the hcart of Gencral Washington, the Great Chief of America, wishes for nothing brotherly love" that "such is the justice, and liberality of the United States," that they will now a third time pay for lands; and that they and their children in thus providing for them not only at pres- are to be found once more so much as реасе авd are "acting the part of a tender father to them ent, but forever."

Eleven hundred and thirty Indians (elevon tribes, besides the Delawares, being represented) were parties to this treaty. By this treaty nearly two-thirds of the present State of Ohio were ceded to the United States; and, in cOnsideration of these "cessions and relinqnishments, and to manifest the liberality of the United States as the great means of rendering this peace strong and perpetual," the United States relinquished all claims to all other Indian lands northward of the River Ohio, eastward of the Mississippi, and westward and southward of the Great Lakes and the waters uniting them, according to the boundary line agreed upon by the United States and the King of Great Britain, in the treaty of peace made between them