Extract of a letter from Colonel Timothy Pickering to the Secretary of War. dated Newtown 16^th July 1791. "Captain Hendrick set off the 13^th Instant, on his journey to the Western Indians; He goes by the way of Niagara to the Grand River, which he may reach in 8 days; from thence to the River of France as it is pronounced to me, is about 20 miles; then he will go down that river, in a Canoe to near the Western end of Lake Erie, and so to Detroit — This is a voyage of about 12 days — From the information he had received, he said it would take him 10 days to go from Detroit to the hostile Indians' towns. So his whole journey may take up thirty days." Compared Signed Ant^y Nary Gen^l Chy. Clk. A.C. [Endorsed — No. 20.]