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in a clofe con- federacy, and occupied the tracS of coun- try from the eaft end of lake Erie to lake Champlain, and from the Kittatinney and Highlands to the lake Ontario and the river Cadaraqui, or St. Laurence. They had fometime before that, carried on a war with a nation, who lived beyond the lakes and were called Adirondacs. In this war they were worfled: but having made a peace with them, through the interceffion of the Frepich who were then fettling Canada, they turned their arms againft the Lenopi; and as this war was long and doubtful, they, in the courfe of it, not only exerted their w^iole force, but put in practice every meafure which prudence or policy could devife to bring it to a fuc- cefsful ifllie. For this purpofe they bent their courfe down the Sufquehannah, and warring with the Indians in their way, and having penetrated as far as the mouth of it, they, by the terror of their arms, engaged a nation, now known by the name of Nanticocks, Conoys, and Tuteloes, and who lived between Chefapeak and Dela- [ 398 1 ware bays, and bordering on the tribe of Chiohocki, to enter into an alliance with them. They alfo formed an alliance with