necessary to make ourselves better
acquainted with the different
Situations of the Country belonging
to this Tribe, in order to form
some Idea where of the best
Place to make our Settlement;
and a place about four Miles
from this being recommended
to us, we proceeded to view it; and
after examining the nature
of the Soil, situation &c. we
United in Opinion that
it was not a suitable place
for our purpose: Here four
of us took up our Lodgings at
the House of a white Man,
who had settled on an hundred
Acres of the Indian Lands, under
a