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At this Village as well at several others, we wereinformed that the Wyandots residing at Sandusky hadwithin a few years turned their attention to agricul-ture, and had made considerable progress in fencingin their Lands and in raising corn cattle &;c On the 2nd of the 5th Mo. we left Detroit &;descended the streights into the Lake then across thesame to fort Erie in upper Cannada where we arrivedon the 10th then across the Niagara streights toBuffaloe creek, where we engaged a conveyance toCanandarque, whilst waiting for the conveyance wevisited the principal village of the Senneka Indianssituated on Buffaloe Creek, we saw several of theirprincipal chiefs and young men engaged in ploughing--to one of these ploughs we saw 6 oxes—others werebusily engaged in cleaving and preparing land forcultivation On the 13 we left Buffaloe Creek, continuingour journey through the Genessee country to the headof the Mohawk river—on our way we passed througha large village of the Oneida Indians, then down theMohawk to Schenectady and from thence to Albanywhere we took water for New York and from thenceby land to Baltimore where we arrived on the 27th. We further inform that some time after ourreturn, we received a letter from Philip Dennis dated6 Mo 26 last which informs that he had been afflicted5 weeks from the time we left him with a Sciatic