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useful animals; amongst others, sheep, for theadvantage of the wool, in making clothing; and toraising flax and hemp, for your linen; and ifyour young women learn to spin, and weave;that your lives will be much easier, and hap-pier, than at present; and that your numberswill increase, and not continue to diminish. Aswe before observed, brothers, your land isgood. It is far better than the land, the whitepeople near the great water cultivate. We arepersuaded, that your land will produce doublethe quantity of any kind of grain, or of flax, orhemp, with the same labour necessary nearthe great water. Brothers and Friends,We shall now end what we have to say, withinforming you, that all the corn, and other pro-ductions of the earth, which Philip Dennis,may raise, we wish our Red Brethren to acceptof, as a token of our friendship. And it is ourdesire that the chiefs of the Pottowattomi andMiami nations, who are now present, added toour brothers, the Five Medals, Tuthinipee,and Philip Dennis, make such a distributionthereof, as they may think proper. The Indians observed great decorum, andgave close attention during the delivery of this