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right of acquiring It has never been contended 



that the Indian title amounted to nothing. Their right 

 of possession has never been questioned. The claim 

 of Government extends to the complete ultimate title, 

 charged with this right of possession, and to the exclu- 

 sive power of acquiring that right." 



Chief Justice Marshall's opinion, in Johnson and 

 Graham's Lessee vs. William Mclntosh. (Wheatons 

 Reports, Vol. 8.) 



P. 290 General William Irvine, 1741-1804; and 

 Lt.-Col. Stephen Bayard, 3rd Pennsylvania. General 

 Irvine left this post Oct. 1st, and Colonel Bayard, 

 Nov. 3rd, of this year. 



P. 291 See also, Gentleman's Magazine, 1786, Vol. 

 56, p. 801, ' A letter from New York mentions the 

 discovery of a spring in the county of Fincastle in 

 Virginia, the waters of which have a singular quality 

 unparalleled in any country in the world, for by flash- 

 ing a little gunpowder over it, the water will take fire 

 and burn like spirits." The county of Fincastle had 

 lost its name and been subdivided several years before 

 1786. 



P. 293 Dr. Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria 

 Sacra, 1680; and Woodward's Essays towards a Natu- 

 ral History of the Earth. 1695. 



P. 296. For an account of Husband's earlier career, 

 (he was a relative and correspondent of Franklin's), 

 see, Fitch, Some Neglected History of North Carolina. 

 Washington, 1905, ch. III-V. 



P. 302 In the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. X 

 (1740), p. 104, a curious letter is given, written by 



