[...d I write to the Secretary of War] N° 1. Hopewell in Tennessee 22 Nov^r 1796 Sir, I have been prevented from I left your road and [undecipherable] the travels as fast as I intended when I set out from Philadelphia. I visited [undecipherable] at the seat of General [undecipherable: Robertson?] the 19^th in better health than I have experienced for several years. I have explained to the Gov[undecipherable] the benevolent views of [the] government in relation to the Indians, with which he is much pleased, and situated as he is on this frontier, confides in and rep[orts?] by the adjacent [undecipherable] Indians he can [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] of our plan. -- We have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of general to meet [at] the [Cherokee?] Mountains to run the boundary line between the Creeks and the United States agreeably to Treaty. The line must be [run] from [Tugalo?] river over the [Cherokee?] Mountains to the [source?] of the [main?] South branch of the [undecipherable]. The General [distances?] his distance to be from [Tugalo?] to the