[Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] Fort [undecipherable] June 26^th 1791 Sir, I had the honor to again receive by Maj. Ferguson on the 13^th instant a Duplicate of your letter of the 23^rd April — Your letter of the 6^th of May and a duplicate one of the 13^th on [receipt?] of the 29^th and one of the 26^th [undecipherable] of the same Month with the same several enclosures — by means of much satisfaction that the prospects from the western [undecipherable] seem to [undecipherable], and [undecipherable] soon to see [undecipherable] friends collected [undecipherable] together for a little more before [they?] [undecipherable] After the [undecipherable] are both [undecipherable] together, and [undecipherable] come to be home any more, their duty [undecipherable] require and as this must now without [undecipherable] a whole [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and as [undecipherable] must now without little [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] that they as [undecipherable] to returned from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] valley — I had a letter from [undecipherable] President [undecipherable] Alexander [undecipherable] of the 3^rd instant in which he says that [undecipherable] Islands [undecipherable] and from [undecipherable] Brothers he had the greatest [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] be able to move with the last of the [undecipherable] bodies [undecipherable] is early in May — there is now a few [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] such as may be ready [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] raising [undecipherable] when [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] named to return [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] letter [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] found [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Department — I learn of my [undecipherable] how [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] New Expedition[s?] [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] Country [undecipherable] many of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] does not admit to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — They have [undecipherable] on the faith of the [undecipherable] — they have [undecipherable] Barrels of flour, and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] long [undecipherable] change, [undecipherable] as I [happily?] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] Report is returned from [undecipherable] and opinions on that [undecipherable] not the least doubt about [undecipherable], and that he [undecipherable] as an [undecipherable] other [undecipherable] when [undecipherable] the number of [undecipherable] that they to [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] for — [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I had a [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] letter from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] drawn to the [undecipherable] — As you must have [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] two hundred of every [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]. 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