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treaty of Prairie du Chien, fixing boundaries to the lands. A 

 permit was given for building, either verbal or written, as I have 

 been informed, by a former commanding officer at Prairie du 

 Chien. I make these statements in reference to a letter I have 

 received from the Department since my return, but which is 

 dated June 27th, containing a complaint of one of the owners of 

 the mill, that the Chippewas had threatened to burn it, and request- 

 ing me to take the necessary precautionary measures. I heard 

 nothing of such a threat, but believe that the respect which the 

 Chippewas have professed, through me, for the American gov- 

 ernment, and the influence of my visit among them, will prevent 

 a resort to any measures of violence ; and that they will wait the 

 peaceable adjustment of the line on the rapids. I will add, that 

 wherever that line may be determined, in a reasonable probability, 

 to fall, the mill itself cannot be supplied with logs for any length 

 of time, if it is now so supplied, without cutting them on Chip- 

 pewa lands, and rafting them down the Red Cedar. Many of the 

 logs heretofore sawed at this mill, have been rafted, up stream, to 

 the mill. And I understood from the person in charge of it, that 

 he was now anxious to ascertain new sites for chopping ; that his 

 expectations were directed up the stream, but that his actual 

 knowledge of the country, in that direction, did not embrace a 

 circumference of more than five miles. 



The line between the Chippewa and Sioux, as drawn on the 

 MS. map of Neenaba, strikes the rapids on Red Cedar River at 

 a brook and bluff a short distance below the mill. It proceeds 

 thence, across the point of land between that branch of the main 

 Chippewa, to an island in the latter ; and thence, up stream, to 

 the mouth of Clearwater River, as called for by the treaty, and 

 from this point to the bluffs of the Mississippi valley (where it 

 corners on Winnebago land), on Black River, and not to the 

 " mouth' 1 of Black River, as erroneously inserted in the 5th arti- 

 cle of the treaty ; the Chippewas never having advanced any 

 claims to the lands at the mouth of Black River. This map, be- 

 ing drawn by a Chippewa of sense, influence, and respectability, 

 an exact copy of it is herewith forwarded for the use of the De- 

 partment, as embracing the opinions of the Chippewas on this 

 point. The lines and geographical marks were drawn on paper 



