Your Lordships most obedient and Most humble servants, WHITEHALL, April 15, 1772. OBSERVATIONS on, and ANSWERS to, the foregoing REPORT. I. The first paragraph of the Report, we apprehend, was intended to establish two propositions as facts;--viz.-- First, That the tract of land agreed for with the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, contains _part_ of the dominion of Virginia. Second, That it extends several degrees of longitude _Westward_ from the Western ridge of the _Allegany_ mountains. On the first proposition we shall only remark, that no part of the above tract is to the _Eastward_ of the Allegany mountains;--and that these mountains must be considered as the true Western boundary of _Virginia_;--for the King was _not_ seised and possessed of a right _to the country Westward_ of the mountains, until his Majesty purchased it, in the year 1768, from the Six Nations: and since that time, there has not been any annexation of such purchase, or of any part thereof, to the colony of Virginia. On the second proposition,--we shall just observe, that the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations appear to us to be as erroneous in this as in the former proposition; for their Lordships say, that the tract of land under consideration _extends several degrees_ of longitude _Westward_. The truth is, that it is not more, on a medium, than one degree and a half of longitude from the Western ridge of the Allegany mountains to the river Ohio. II. It appears by the second paragraph, as if the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations apprehended,--that the lands south-westerly of the _boundary line_, marked on a map annexed to their Lordships _report_,--were either claimed by the Cherokees, or were their hunting grounds, or were the hunting grounds of the Six Nations and their confederates. As to any claim of the Cherokees to the above country, it is altogether new and indefensible; and never was heard of, until the appointment of Mr. Stewart to the superintendency of the Southern colonies, about the year 1764; and this, we flatter ourselves, will not only be obvious from the following state of facts, but that the right to _all the country_ on the Southerly side of the river Ohio, quite to the Cherokee River, is _now_ undoubtedly vested in the King, by the grant which the Six Nations made to his Majesty at Fort Stanwix, in November 1768.--In short, the lands from the _Great Kenhawa_ to the _Cherokee river_ never were, either the dwelling or hunting grounds of the _Cherokees_;--but formerly belonged to, and were inhabited by the _Shawanesse_, until such time as they were conquered by the Six Nations.