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sensibility some of them manifest; we were induced to hope they would continue to be good examples to their brethren. At Stockbridge the same evil of drinking to excess was painfully prevalent amongst the Men, consequently the progress of civilization is slow. There are however a few of them, and the Women generally in this Tribe who are careful to avoid this pernicious practice, for whom we felt much sympathy, and who expressed their of the kindness manifested towards them by friends with gratitude and affection. They have two Schools amongst them both taught by Natives; and seem disposed as well as those of Brothertown to place their Children among the whites that they may improve in the arts of civilized life; and we have been united in the sentiment that the greatest probability of our being permanently useful to this People is from the instruction to be given the rising generation. To the Oneida south settlement our visit was not satisfactory for want of a suitable Interpreter, yet they seemed desirous of having a School opened, but not having expected to make any other provision for the support of a Teacher than the appropriation of two hundred Acres of