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the General a copy of that sketch, anterior to the march of the army, but he rejected it with great indifference, observing that he "had it already"--

The savages are mute and invincible, probably meditating future mischief, or listening to the seduction of Mr. Simes, & his Coadjutor[?] Mackee, whose ascending in all their plans & deliberation appears to be [unclear]tible; I am fearful that Peace, on [unclear] with these tribes depend upon the fist[?] of the British and that we cannot secure the former, but this, their mediation, on by [unclear] them the natural Territory, the first [unclear] seems unadmittable , & the last unseasonable--I am of the opinion, should the British agents face in their attempts to stimulate the savages to a renewal of hostilities in respectable force, that they will endeavor to entice the Tribes of this Quarter, to [unclear] in some distant region of our Territory, or to withdraw beyond Lake Erie, to the River Trench or the County[?] occupied by Branard[?], in order to continue their tributary and to secure their trade-- I have the Honor to be my Dear Sir [unclear] &c. &c. J. W. Gen'l Knox[?]