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will be assisted by the Indians—after their corn isplanted we are willing to believe they will be ableto mannage it should a second ploughing howeverbe necessary we wish that also to be done, thisperson may also prepare for them a garden of themost useful vegetables, which they may afterwardseasily mannage, of the descriptions we leave theeto judge. This little service rendered to themthe present year we hope will convince theIndians that we have not withdrawn our regardfrom them, the expence involved in a compliancewith the request which we have now made ofthee we will cheerfully pay and should it bepracticable to do for them what we proposewe have to request of thee, the favour of informingthe Indians that the work which we now do forthem, is a small token of the continuance of ourlove for them and that we hope that the attentionthey gave last summer to the mannagement ofPhilip Dennis in cultivating a crop for them hasafforded them much instruction in the use of thePlough and other implements of Husbandry We hope there will be a continuance of ourcorrespondence and that from time to time we shallbe favoured with such information from theerelative to our Indian Brethren as will be interestingto usThy friends Evan Thomas Geo. Ellicott Gerard T. Hopkins