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we had been doing at Cornplanters set- -tlement, and an account of the Young Men we had left there, the Captain ex- pressed great satisfaction with our pro- ceedings, and thought there was encouragement to extend labour towards that people, for he had been sometime past through the Oneida settlement and he apprehended he saw considerable improvement since o friends extended care there. About 2 O Clock we sat of towards Canan- -darque, and for 9 or 10 miles we passed through a thick settled, highly improved Country, for considering the settlement to be was no more than 10 years old, which to me was very animating, having for 300 miles past been mostly in the Wilderness where improvments were not to be seen, here we had beautiful Timo- -thy, and Clover fields almost Constantly in view, with a good appearance of wheat Indian Corn, flax, Oates &;c. these we shewed to our Indian guide, he alighted to examine the heads of Wheat, we shewed him the flax that that Shirts &;c. were made of, with which he appeared pleased, we saw four Men howing corn these we pointed to, telling him they were not