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Men would want a house to live in, and a piece of good Land to work, that so they may be able to raise their bread. For which purpose we wanted desired some of their Chiefs would to go with us, to look about their Coun- -try, and conclude where would be most ad- -vantageous to the nation for our young men to settle down on, and that we would wished to see their nation in general Council once more before we left them. Upon our letting them know we had no more to say, Cornplanter desired his People would all come and shake hand with us, he himself first setting the ex- -ample, 20 and 1st of the week, we had some conversati- -on this morning about sitting together in " religious retirement, and thought it would be right to inform Cornplanter, that if he or any of his sober people enclined to set with us it would be ac- -ceptable, tho the prospect of such an undertaking felt weighty, before we were fully concluded, the Chief with his son Henry came in to our appartment, and said he hoped we would not think hard