These Things the Merchants have thought it safe for them, and consistent with their Duty to his sacred Majesty, to say in his Majesty's Presence, and to repeat them afterwards before the Right Hon. the Lords of Trade, though nothing can be more directly contrary to the Truth. For there are no Nations of _Indians_ between _New-York_ and the Nations of _Indians_ in the _English Interest_, who are now six in Number, by the Addition of the _Tuscaroras_. The _Mohawks_ (called _Annies_ by the _French_) one of the Five Nations, live on the South-side of a Branch of _Hudson's-River_, (not on the North-side, as they are placed in the _French_ Maps) and but forty Miles directly West from _Albany_, and within the _English_ Settlements, some of the _English_ Farms upon the same River being thirty Miles further West. The _Oneidas_ (the next of the Five Nations) lie likewise West from _Albany_, near the Head of the _Mohawks-River_, about one Hundred Miles from _Albany_. The _Onondagas_ lie about one Hundred and Thirty Miles West from _Albany_. And the _Tuscaroras_ live partly with the _Oneidas_, and partly with the _Onondagas_. The _Cayugas_ are about one hundred and sixty Miles from _Albany_. And the _Sennekas_ (the furthest of all these Nations) are not above two hundred and forty Miles from _Albany_, as may appear by Mr. _De L'Isle_'s Map of _Louisiane_, who lays down the Five Nations under the Name of _Iroquois_. And Goods are daily carried from this Province to the _Sennekas_, as well as to those Nations that lie nearer, by Water all the Way, except three Miles, (or in the dry Seasons, five Miles) where the Traders carry over Land between the _Mohawks-River_ and the _Wood Creek_, which runs into the _Oneida-Lake_, without going near either _St. Lawrence-River_, or any of the _Lakes_ upon which the _French_ pass, which are entirely out of their Way. The nearest _French_ Forts or Settlements to _Albany_, are _Chambly_ and _Monreal_, both of them lying about North and by East from _Albany_, and are near two hundred Miles distant from it. _Quebeck_ lies about three hundred and eighty Miles North-East from _Albany_. So far is it from being true, that the Five Nations are situated upon the Banks of the _River St. Lawrence_, opposite to _Quebeck_, that _Albany_ lies almost directly between _Quebeck_ and the _Five Nations_. And to say that these _Indians_ cannot come to trade at _Albany_, but by going down the _River St. Lawrence_, and then into a _Lake_ eighteen Leagues from _Albany_ (we suppose they mean _Lake Champlain_) passing by the _French_ Forts, is to the same Purpose as if they should say, that one cannot go from _London_ to _Bristol_, but by Way of _Edinburgh_.