At the treaty of 1791, Governor Blount, as he alleges, sought, by every means in his power, to have the boundary of the cession follow, so far as might be, the natural barrier formed by the dividing ridge between the waters of Little River and those of the Tennessee,[98] and such in fact was the tenor of his instructions from the Secretary of War; but the Indian chiefs unanimously insisted that the boundary should be a straight line, running from the point where the ridge in question should strike the Holston, and assumed as evidence of the crookedness of Governor Blount's heart the fact that he desired to run a crooked line.[99] [Footnote 96: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 43.] [Footnote 97: United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 43.] [Footnote 98: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 629.] [Footnote 99: Letter of Governor Blount to Secretary of War, March 2, 1792. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 629.] [Footnote 100: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 628.] [Footnote 101: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 543.] [Footnote 102: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 536.] [Footnote 103: January 3, 1795. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 536.] [Footnote 104: February 2, 1796. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 581.] TREATY CONCLUDED OCTOBER 2, 1798.[106] _Held near Tellico, in the Cherokee Council House between George Walton and Lieut. Col. Thomas Butler, commissioners on behalf of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of the Cherokee Nation._ MATERIAL PROVISIONS. Owing to misunderstandings and consequent delay in running the boundary line prescribed by the treaties of 1791 and 1794, and the ignorant encroachment of settlers on the Indian lands within the limits of such boundaries before their survey, it became desirable that the Indians should cede more land. The following treaty was therefore concluded: 1. Peace and friendship are renewed and declared perpetual. 2. Previous treaties acknowledged to be of binding force. 3. Boundaries of the Cherokees to remain the same where not altered by this treaty.