than the acquisition of about 90,000 acres in the immediate precints of the town. This state of things was very soon altered, when Mr. McLean undertook negotiations there in 1854; which resulted in some hundreds of thousands of acres being acquired from numerous, and often conflicting claimants, upon most reasonable terms; and without ever incurring any dissatisfaction, or dispute, between rival claimants, or between the Europeans now occupying these lands, and the native vendors. We deny, therefore, as utterly unfounded, the assertion made in this pamphlet, that during Mr. McLean's administration of the Native Department, the natives became more and more unwilling to part with land;