[N^o 71. To Maj Gen Knox Sec^y gover.] Head Quarters Greeneville 18. Jan^y 1794 Sir I pray you to consider this as supplementary to my letter N^o 70. of the same date; and to assure you that I consider the arrival of the Flag therein mentioned, rather unfortunate than otherwise, at this crisis; as my arrangements were matured for seizing and fortifying the place marked Girty's town, on Gen^l Harmar's route, which bears N.N.E. distant 31 miles with an old indian path leading all the way over very passable ground. Girty's town is on the S^t Mary's; if not an Au Glaize; exactly halfway between this place and Grand Glaize, situate at the confluence of the Au Glaize with the Miami of the lake; where the most inveterate of the hostile tribes of Indians are now settled. — However as the overture came from the savages, I could not well refuse to hear it; nor can I now consistently take now