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Thomas Jefferson compiles these notes in response to inquiries from a foreign official regarding the geography and state of Virginia. The text provides detailed descriptions of the region's boundaries, dimensions, and physical landscape as understood in the late eighteenth century.

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Query IX.

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The following tribes are also mentioned:

Lezar, - VVebings, Ou fa toys Grand I'uc Linways, .«« \ From the mouth of Ohio to the mouth 400 ^ of Wabath. 200 On the Miffifipi below the Shakics.

} ^r^r^r. 5 Oo VVhltc Cfcck, z. braiich of the MifJ 4OC0J f-^.p;^ 1000 On the Miflifipi.

Les Puans, F illc Avoine « j Oiianakina, - 6- ^ Chiakaneflbu o I Machecous. ^ wSouikilas, "v J "^ "^ Piankifhas Q I Mafcout ^ Vermillions IS, 1 ns, j> 3ns, J 700 350 300 350 800 200, Near Puans Bay. Near Puans Bay.

Conjedtuied to be Tribes of the Creeks.

North-Weft of L. Michigan^^ the heads of Miffifipi, and up to L. Superior.

On and near the Wabafh toward the Illinois.

But apprehending thefe might be dif- ferent appellations for feme of the tribes already enumerated, I have not inferted them in the table, but ftate them fepa- rately as worthy of further enquiry. The variations obfervable in numbering the fame tribe may fometimes be afcribed to imperfed information, and fometimes to a greater or lefs comprehenfion of fettle- ments under the fame name. (7)

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