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which I have heard of have been preposterous. Wehave aimed at teaching Religion &; the Sciences beforewe have taught them the simple and essentiallabours of civil life. Gov. St. Clair,I am very RespectfullyYr. Mo. Obd. Serv.Tim Pickering The following report was agreed on To the Yearly Meeting in Baltimore The committee last year, appointed to attendto the Concern opened and considered in the yearly Meetingrelating to the civilization and improvement of thesituation of the Indians have divers times met andconferred on the Method most proper to persue in orderTo obtain the necessary information respecting thesituation and disposition of those nations whoreside most convenient on the NW of the river Ohioand believed the way most likely to answer thatpurpose would be to appoint some of our numberto go into that Country and open biefor their chiefsthe desire friends had of affording them som assis-tance in the particulars above mentioned, accordingby 5 Wise nominated for that pupose 4 of whom afterbeing furnished with permission from Governmentproceeded to the mouth of Wheeling on the Ohio river