to and signed the treaty of final cession of New Echota, in 1835.  But the compensation being found ample, and the provisions wise, and such as would, in the judgment of the United States Senate, secure their prosperity and advancement permanently, that body, on large consideration, yielded its assent, making, at the same time, further concessions to satisfy the malcontents.  These are the final arrangements for leaving the land to which Gen. Scott, in his proclamation, alludes.

This tribe has lived in its present central position longer than the period of exact history denotes.  They are first heard of under the name of “Achalaques,” by the narrator of De Soto’s Conquest of Florida, in 1540; within a dozen years of three centuries ago.

June 2d.  I proceeded, during the latter part of May, to visit the Ottawas of the southern part of Michigan, to inquire about their schools under the treaty of ’36, and to learn, personally, their condition during the state of the rapid settlements pressing around them.  I went to Chicago by steamboat, and there found a schooner for Grand River.  Here I was pleased to meet our old pastor, Mr. Ferry, as a proprietor and pastor of the newly-planned town of Grand Haven.  I had to wait here, some days, for a conveyance to the Grand Rapids, which gave me time to ramble, with my little son, about the sandy eminences of the neighborhood, and to pluck the early spring flowers in the valley.  The “Washtenong,” a small steamer with a stern-wheel, in due time carried us up.  Among the passengers was an emigrant English family from Canada, who landed at a log house in the woods.  I was invited, at the Rapids, to take lodgings with Mr. Lewis Campeau, the proprietor of the village.  The fall of Grand River here creates an ample water power.  The surrounding country is one of the most beautiful and fertile imaginable, and its rise to wealth and populousness must be a mere question of time, and that time hurried on by a speed that is astonishing.  This generation will hardly be in their graves before it will have the growth and improvements which, in other countries, are the results of centuries.

5th.  I this day, in a public council at the court house, paid the Indians the deferred half annuity of last year (1837) in silver coin, and afterwards concluded a treaty with them, modifying the treaty of 28th March, 1836, so far as to make it obligatory on the government to pay their annuities here instead of Michilimackinack.  The annuities in salt, tobacco, provisions and goods, were also delivered to them by agents appointed for the purpose.  They expressed themselves, and appeared to be highly gratified, with the just fulfilment of every treaty obligation, and with the kind and benevolent policy and treatment of the American government.