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essay upon a piece of level land that has lain common a great many years, like a public square, in the centre of their bark huts and log houses. Upon which a few of the most tractable Youths are to be taught as Apprentices; and the rest will have the opportunity of observing the progress, and witnessing the reward of their labour. When the business is got under way some of our Young Men will occasionally visit the Tuscaroras, above- mentioned, Stockbridges, and Brothertons, for the necessary purposes of putting forward their work in due season, and improving them in the principles of husbandry and good living, in the ru-diments of which the two latter are already pretty well grounded. On 7th. day morning we visited the Brothertons, and were sur-prised to find them dressed like us, speaking the same language, and many of them almost as fair as ourselves. Most of the Children having chesnut hair, and some curled. They consist of 40 or 50 Families that have been brought up in different parts of New England, Long Island, &; and so naturalized to our language, and customs that they now use no other; which has such an effect upon persons and principles that I am persuaded they may incorporate with the White Inhabitants, in and age or two, upon equal terms. These People affairs have been lately put upon an advantageous footing by the kind interposition of the Friends of New York,