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G0VERN3IENT AID TO SCIEXTIFIC AND LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 



[1855. 



submitted to public auction, fetched little more than £7,000. The 

 Ko!i-i-Noor is of tli^ purest water. The author stated, that in order to 

 test a real diamond, aud distinguish between that of a topaz, it was 

 necessary to scratch it with sapphire (No. 9 in hardness), which would 

 mark a topaz, but would not penetrate a diamond. He was sorrv to 

 fiud tiat so little attention had been paid to the means of testing 

 diamonds ; and instanced a ring which was recently purchased in 

 Kegent Street, London, for £2 lO, which proved to be two pieces of 

 rock crystal, with an intermediate insertion of coloui'ed glass. In 

 many of our watering-places the gentry were imposed upou by parties 

 selling pieces of glass, which they represented to be sapphires picked 

 up on the beach. — Alhenceum. 



Sui'reuder of tlie Saiigeeu Peuiusula. 



The last surrender of any considerable tract of fertile land which 

 can take place in Western Canada is recorded in the treaty which 

 follows. Mere isolated patches, few aud far between, now remain in 

 possession of the miserable remnants of the sons of the soil. The treaty 

 was concluded in October last, and opens a beautiful but rather distant 

 and inaccessible region to the adventurous settler. 



Treaty Eecording the Surrender of the Saugeen Peninsula. 



We, the Chief-Sachems and principle men of the Indian tribes resi- 

 dents at Saugeen and Owen Sound, confiding in the wisdom and pro- 

 tecting care of our Great Mother across the Big Lake, and believing 

 that our Good Father, His Excellency the Earl of Elgin and Kincar- 

 dine, Governor General of Canada, is anxiously desirous to promote 

 those interests which will most largely conduce to the welfare of His 

 Ked children, have now, being in full Council assembled in presence 

 of the Superintendent General of Indian Aifairs, and of the young men 

 of both tribes, agreed that it will be highly desirable for us to make a 

 full and coaiplete surrender unto the Crown of that Peninsula, known 

 as the Saugeen and Owen Sound Indian Reserve, subject to certain 

 restrictions and reservations to be hereinafter set forth. We have 

 therefore set our marks on this document, after having heard the same 

 read to us, and do hereby surrender the whole of the above named 

 tr^ict of country bound on the south by a straight line from the Indian 

 Tillage of Saugeen, to the Indian TiUage of Xawash, in continuation of 

 the Northern limit of the narrow strip recently surrendered by us to the 

 Crowu, and bounded on the Xorth-east and West by Georgian Bay aud 

 Lake Huron, with the following reservations to wit : 



1st, — -For the benefit of the Saugeen Indians, we reserve all that 

 block of land bounded on the West, by a straight line running due 

 Korth from the River Saugeen at the spot where it is entered by a 

 ravine, immediately to the west of the village, and over which a bridge 

 has recently been constructed to the shore of Lake Huron : — on the 

 South by the aforesaid northern limit of the lately surrendered strip ; 



on the East by a line drawn from a spot upon the coast at a distance 



of about nine miles and-a-half from the Western boundary aforesaid, 

 and running par.allel thereto until it touches the aforementioned nor- 

 thern limit of the recently surrendered strip, and we wish it to be 

 clearlv understood, that we wish the Peninsula at the mouth of the 

 Saugeen River, to the west of the western boundary aforesaid, to be 

 laid'out in town and park lots and sold for our benefit without delay, 

 and we also wish it to be understood that our surrender includes that 

 parcel of land which is in continuation of the strip recently surrender- 

 ed, to Saugeen River. 



We do also reserve to ourselves that tract of land called Chief's 

 Point, bounded on the East by a line drawn from a spot half-a-mile up 

 the Sable River, and continued in a northerly dirrection to the Bay, 

 and upon all other sides by the Lake. 



2nd. — We reserve, for the benefit of the Owen Sound Indians, all 

 - that tract bounded on the South by the Northern limit of the continu- 

 ation of strip recently surrendered on the North-west by a line drawn 

 from the North-easterly angle of the aforesaid strip, (as it was sur- 

 rendered in 1851,) in a North-easterly direction. On the South-east 

 by the Sound, extending to the Southern limit of the Caughnawaga 

 settlement ; — on the North by a line two miles in length forming the 

 said Southern limit, and we also reserve to ourselves all that tract of 

 land called cape Crocker, bounded on three sides by Georgian Bay, on 

 the South-west by a line drawn from the bottom of Nochemowenaing 

 Bay, to the mouth of Sucker River, aud we include in the aforesaid 

 surrender the parcel of land contained in the continuation to Owen 

 Sound of the recently surrendered strip aforesaid. 



3rd. — We do reserve for the benefit of the Colpoy's Bay Indians in 

 the presence and with the concurrence of John Beattie, who represents 

 the tribes at this Council, a block of land containing 6000 acres and 

 including their village and bounded on the North by Colford"s Bsiy. 



All which reserves we hereby retain to ourselves and our children, 

 in perpetuity, and it is .agreed, that the interest of the principal sums 

 arising out of the sale of our lands, be regularly paid to them, so 

 long as there are Indians left to represent our tribe, without diminu- 

 tion, at half-yearly periods. 



And we hereby request the the sanction of our Great Father, the 

 Governor General, to this surrender, which we consider highly con- 

 ducive to our general interests. 



Done in Council at Saugeen, this thirteenth day of October, 1854. 

 It is understood that no Islands are included in this surrender. 

 (Singed and sealed.) 



L. OuPHiST, Superintendent Gener.ll Indian Affairs. 

 Pepek J.\cobs, Missionary. 

 (Witnesses.) 



(Signed, ) 

 John Ross, M.P.P. 

 C. R.\XKi-N-, P.L.S., (seal.) 

 A. McN-iB, Crown Land Agent. 



(Signed,) John Kadahgekwun, (scil.) 



" Alexander Madwayosh, (seal.) 



" John Monedaow.ib, (seal.) 



" John Thos. W.abbahdick, (seal.) 



" Peter Jones, (seal.) 



" David Sawyer, (seal.) 



" John H. Beatty, (se.al,) 



" Thomas Pababenosh, (seal.) 



" John Madwashaninck, (seal.) 



" John Johnston, (seal.) 



" John Aunjegahbowin, (seal.) 



" John Newash, (seal.) 



" Thomas Wabbahdick, (seal.) 



" Charles Keebick, (seal.) 



CrOT-enuuent Aid- to Scientific aud Literary Institutions) iu Upper 

 aud XiCiver Cauada* 



Aid to Canadian Institute, Toronto £2-50 



Do. do. towards their Building 500 



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