Nations. Seven Nations of Canada. Connoys. Delawares. Munsees. Shawaneses. Nantikohies. Miamies. Mohikans. Ottawas. Mesagues. Chippewas. Creeks. Senchas of the Glaize. Cherokees. To the foregoing answer of the Indian Nations, the Commissioners immediately made the following reply and delivered it to the two Wyandot Runners, who brought the answer. To the chiefs and Warriors of the Indian Nations assembled at the foot of the Miami Rapids. Brothers. We have just received your answer dated the 13^th Inst. to our speech of the 31^st of last month, which we delivered to your deputies at this place. You say it was interpreted to all your nations, and we presume it was fully understood. We therein explicitly declared to you that it was now imposible to make the River Ohio the boundary between your lands, and the lands of the United States; your answer amounts to a declaration that you will agree to no other boundary than the Ohio. The negociation is therefore at an end. We sincerely regret that peace is not the result; but knowing the upright liberal views of the United States which as far as you gave us an opportunity, we have explained to you; we trust that Impartial Judge will not attribute the continuance of the War to them. Done at Captain Elliotts at the mouth of Detroit River the 16^th day of August 1793. B. Lincoln, B. Randolph, } Commissioners of the T. Pickering. } United States. The next morning (Saturday August 17^th) The Commissioners sent by their own runners (being one Onandage and two Oneidas,) the following letter and the paper therein mentioned to the chiefs of the Six Nations. To the chiefs of the Six Nations. Brothers. Two runners were sent by us this Week with a message dated the 14^th of this month, to the Indian Nations assembled at the Rapids of the Miami. Our instructions to the Runners were to inform you that they had such a message from us, and to request you to assemble the Chiefs of the other nations, and then deliver it to you all together. From the report of the Runners, we are apprehensive that they mistook our orders, and that our message had not been communicated to you. We therefore, now send you a copy of it N^o 4. We at the same time sent a letter to Colonel McKee of which also we inclose a Copy, N^o 2. Brothers. Our runners returned hither this evening; but a few hours before their arrival, two Wyandots Runners arrived with a written answer N^o 3. to our speech of the 31^st of last month, insisting on the Ohio as the boundary between the Indian lands and those of the United States. As we had already explicitly declared that we could not make the Ohio the boundary; the business, of course, was at an end. However we delivered a short speech in writing to the same runners, who set off this evening to return to the same