lengthy answer, which in the first place
pointed out the improbability of any part of
the business being misunderstood at the conference
at Niagara

, and stated such facts as made
it appear that such a pretence could be
nothing less than want of sincerity.- men
-mention was then made of the several
Treaties concluded since the establishment
of the Independance of the United States, and
of the new settlements made in consequence
of those treaties, and of the impossibility of
removing such a great number of Families
from their habitations and Farms; and
therefore, in the most explicit terms de-
clared declared that the United States could
not agree that the River Ohio should be
the boundary line.- In the next place
the Commissioners acknowledged that very
improper Language had been held out at
former Treaties, when it had been said that
the United States claimed all the Indian Coun
-try, (within certain limits mark'd out by
the Treaty of Peace with the British) as a con-
quer'd Country.- The Commissioners