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harassed unremittingly the Powhatans and Man-nahoacs. These were probably the ancestors of the tribes known at present by the name of the Six Nations. Very little can now be dis-covered of the subsequent history of these tribes severally. The Chickalaminies removed about 1661 to Mattapony river. Their chief, with one of each of the tribes of the Pamunkies and Mat-tahonys, attended the meeting at Albany, in 1685; this seems to be the last chapter in their history. The Monacans and their friends, better known latterly by the name of Tuscaroras, were probably connected with the Massawomics, or Five Nations; for though we are told that their languages were so different that the interven-tion of interpreters was necessary between them, yet we also learn that the Erigas, a nation for-merly inhabiting the Ohio, were of the same original stock with the Five Nations, and that they partook also of the Tuscarora language. Their dialects might, by long separation, have become so unlike as to be unintelligible to each other. We know, that in 1712, the Five Na-tions received the Tuscaroras in their confede-racy, and made them the Sixth Nation. All the nations of Indians in North America, lived in the hunter's state, and depended for subsistence on hunting, fishing, and the spontaneous fruits of the earth, and a kind of grain, which was planted and gathered by the women, and is now known by the name of Indian corn. Long po-