Earl of Dartmouth's letter to governor 1710, Aug. Premiers propositions de la France. 6 1711, Apr. 22. Réponses de la France aux demandes 1711, Oct. 8. préliminaries de la Grande-Bretagne. 6 Lamb. 681. 2, Mem. Amer. 344. Demandes préliminaries plus particulieres 1711, L'acceptation de la part de la Grande- 1711, Sept. 27. Oct. 8. Sept. 27. Oct. 8. The Queen's instructions to the Bishop of 1711, Dec. 23. Bristol and Earl of Stafford, her plenipotentiaries, to treat for a general peace. 6 Lamberty, 744. 2 Mem. Am. 358. A memorial of Mr. St. John to the Mar quis de Torci, with regard to North 1712, America, to commerce, and to the suspension of arins. 7 Recueil de Lamberty 161, 2 Mem. de l'Amer. 376. May 24. June 10. Réponse du roi de France au memoire 1712, une 10. de Londres. 7. Lamberty, p. 163. 2 Mem. Am. 380. Traité pour une suspension d'armes entre 1712, Aug. 19. Offers of France to England, demands of 1712, Sept. 10. XIV. roi de France, and Anne, reine 1713,- Mar. 31. April 11. Mar. 31. April 11. Traité de navigation and de commerce 18 1726. 1728, Jan. 1732. G. 2. Fait à Utrecht. 8 Corps Dipl. part 1, p. 345. 2 Mem. de l'Am. 137. A treaty with the Indians. The petition of the representatives of the Deed of release by the government of 1732, June 9-20 The Charter granted by George II. for 5 Geo. 2. 1733. Georgia. 4 Mem. de l'Am. 617. Petition of Lord Fairfax, that a commission might issue for running and marking the dividing line between his district and the province of Virginia. 1733, Nov. 29. Order of the king in council for commissioners to survey and settle the said dividing line between the proprietary and royal territory. 1736, Aug. 5. Report of the Lords of trade relating to the separating the government of the province of New-Jersey from NewYork. Sm. N. J. 423., 1737, Aug. 10. Survey and report of the commissioners appointed on the part of the crown to settle the line between the crown and Lord Fairfax. 1737, Aug. 11. Survey and report of the commissioners appointed on the part of Lord Fairfax to settle the line between the crown and him. 1738, Dec. 21. Order of reference of the surveys between the crown and Lord Fairfax to the council for plantation affairs. 1744, June. Treaty with the Indians of the Six Nations at Lancaster. 1745, April 6. Report of the council for plantation affairs, fixing the head springs of Rappa hannoc and Patowmac, and a commission to extend the line. 1745, April 11. Order of the king in council confirming the said report of the council for plan tation affairs. Articles préliminaries pour parvenir à la 1748, April 30. paix, signés à Aix-la-Chapelle entre les ministres de France, de la Grande-Bretagne, and des Provinces-Unies des Pays-Bas. 2 Mem. de l'Am. 159. Declaration des ministres de France, de 1748, May 21. la Grande-Bretagne, and des ProvincesUnies des Pays-Bas, pour rectifier les articles I. and II. des préliminaries. 2. Mem. Am. 165. The general and definitive treaty of peace 1748, Oct. 7-18. concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle. Lon. 22 G. 2. Mag. 1748. 503. French. 2. Mem. Am. 169. A treaty with the Indians. 1754. A conference between governor Bernard 1568, Aug. 7. and Indian nations at Burlington. Sm. N. F. 449. A conference between governor Denny, 1758, Oct. 8. governor Bernard, and others, and In dian nations at Easton. Sm. N. F. 455. The definitive treaty concluded at Paris. A proclamation for regulating the cessions 1759, July 25. 33. G. 2. 175 1763, Feb. 10. 3. G. 3. 1763, Oct. 7. G. 3. The king's proclamation against settling 1763. on any lands on the waters westward of the Alleghany. Deed from the six nations of Indians to 1768, Nov. 3. William Trent, and others, for lands betwixt the Ohio and Monongahela. View of the title to Indiana. Phil. Deed from the six nations of Indians to 1768, Nov. 5. the crown for certain lands and settling a boundary. M. S. APPENDIX. THE preceding sheets have been submitted to my friend Mr Charles Thompson, Secretary of Congress, he has furnished me with the following observations, which have too much merit not to be communicated. (A.) p. 15. Besides the three channels of communication mentioned between the western waters and the Atlantic, there are two others to which the Pennsylvanians are turning their attention; one from Presque Isle, on Lake Erie, to Le Bœuf, down the Alleghaney to Kiskiminitas, then up the Kiskiminitas, and from thence, by a small portage, to Juniata, which falls into the Susquehanna: the other from Lake Ontario to the East Branch of the Delaware, and down that to Philadelphia. Both these are said to be very practicable: and, considering the enterprising temper of the Pennsylvanians, and particularly of the merchants of Philadelphia, whose object is concentered in promoting the commerce and trade of one city, it is not improbable but one or both of these communications will be opened and improved. (B.) p. 18. The reflections I was led into on viewing this passage of the Patowmac through the Blue ridge were, that this country must have suffered some violent convulsion, and that the face of it must have been changed from what it probably was some centuries ago: that the broken and ragged faces of the mountain on each side the river; the tremendous rocks, which are left with one end fixed in the precipice, and the other jutting out, and seemingly ready to fall for want of support, the bed of the river for several miles below obstructed, and filled with the loose stones carried from this mound; in short, every thing on which you cast your eye evidently demonstrates a disrupture and breach in the mountain, and that, before this happened, what is now a fruitful vale, was formerly a great lake or collection of water, which possibly might have here formed a mighty cascade, or had its vent to the ocean by the Susquehanna, where the Blue ridge seems to terminate. Besides this, there are other parts of this country which bear evident traces of a like convulsion. From the best accounts I have been able to obtain, the place where the Delaware now flows through the Kittatinney mountain, which is a continuation of what is called the North ridge, or mountain, was not its original course, but that it passed through what is now called the Wind-gap,' a place several miles to the westward, and about an hundred feet higher than the present bed of the river. This Wind-gap is about a mile broad, and the stones in it such as seem to have been washed for ages by water running over them. Should this have been the case, there must have been a large lake behind that mountain, and by some uncommon swell in the waters, or by some convulsion of nature the river must have opened its way through a different part of the mountain, and meeting there with less obstruction, carried away with it the opposing mounds of earth, and deluged the country below with the immense collection of waters to which this new passage gave vent. There are still remaining, and daily discovered, innumerable instances of such a deluge on both sides of the river, after it passed the hills above the falls of Trenton, and reached the champaign. On the New Jersey side, which is flatter than the Pennsylvania side, all the country below Croswick hills seems to have been overflowed to the distance of from ten to fifteen miles back from the river, and to have acquired a new soil by the earth and clay brought down and mixed with the native sand. The spot on which Philadelphia stands evidently appears to be made ground. The different strata through which they pass in digging to water, the acorns, leaves, and sometimes branches, which are found above |