must be yet very far from having reached any true estimate of real values, as General Harrison adds: "From the best caleula tion I have been able to make, the tract now ceded contains at least two millions of acres, and embraces some of the finest lands in the Western country."

Cheap at one thousand dollars a year-even with the negro man trown in, which General Harrison tells the Sceretary he has ordered Captain Wells to purchase, and present to the chief, The Turtle, and to draw on the United States Treasury for the amount paid for bim.

Four years later (1809) General IIarrison is instructed by the President "to take advantage of the most favorable mo ment for extinguishing the Indian title to the lands lying of the Wabash, and adjoining south;" and the title was exti- guished by the treaty of Fort Wayne -a little more money paid, and a great deal of land given up.

In 1814 we made a treaty, simply of peace and friendship, with the Delawares and several other tribes : they agreeing fight faithfully ing to "confirm aud establish all the boundaries" as existed before the war east to on our side against the English, and we agrec- they ad

In 1817 it was deemed advisable to make au effort to ex tinguish the Indian title to all the lands claimed by them with- in the limits of the State of Ohio. Two commissioners were appointed, with great discretionary powers; and a treaty was concluded carly in the autumn, by which there was ceded to the United States nearly all the land to which the Indians had claim in Ohio, a part of Indiana, and a part of Michigan. This treaty was said by the Secretary of War to be the most important of any hitherto made with the Iudians," 6The extent of the cession far exceeded" his most sanguine expectations, and he had the honesty be no real or well-fonnded objection to the amount of the com to admit that "there can pensation given for it, except that it is not an adequate one,"