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general failure of their crops. A permanent Teacher for this Tribe has not yet been procured which still remains to be a desirable object with the Committee. At present our friend Charles Willetts of Long Island is acceptably there for the purpose of instructing their children in school learning, and promoting the views of Friends by assisting in leading them into agricultural pursuits. By report of the Friends who visited the small settlement at Onondaga, we learn that that tribe though in a rude uncultivated state, unaccustomed to the arts of husbandry have totally refrained from the use of ardent Spirits for a number of years; they appeared to receive the visit gratefully and to be very desirous of the further care &; assistance of Friends Before closing this report it may be satisfactory to add, that there have been two girls sent from