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Presently after the Counsel, the chiefs wife brought us up some dinner of her own prepareing, of which some of us eat hearty, but some others partook but spareingly of her bounty --- The Indians of this Village, have a large extent of ground under good fence in one enclosure stretching along the River for near three miles on a very rich bottom -- a great deal of which is planted with Corn and looks well some of it they are now pulling nearly all these improvements have been made within three years. They have a pretty large stock of Cattle and Swine &; the extensive natural Meadows that lay contiguous to them affords them a great outlet to feed in &; the most elegible place for raising Cattle of any I have ever seen on Indians Grounds. But altho their situation is so very favourable for Agriculture they have by no means made such a progress therein as the Allegany Indians,