The Count De Frontenac attacks Onondaga in Person with the whole Force of Canada. The Five Nations continue the War with the French, and make Peace with the Dionondadies.188

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The Conduct which the English and French observed in regard to the Five Nations, immediately after the Peace of Ryswick.196
Treaties, Charters, publick Acts &c. from pag. 204, to the End.

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A short View of the Form of Government of the Five Nations, and of their Laws, Customs, &c.

It is necessary to know something of the Form of Government of the People, whose History one is about to know, and a few Words will be sufficient to give the Reader a Conception of that of the Five Nations, because it still remains under original Simplicity, and free from those complicated Contrivances, which have become necessary to the Nations, where Deceit and Cunning have increased as much as their Knowledge and Wisdom.