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No. 2 Some of the young men have acquired a little knowledge of the Mechanic branches, which they apply for their own convenience, but they depend on the culture of the soil for support. In both settlements there are about 50 children of an age suitable to attend school. There is a day school taught by a female, that has been in oper- ation about six months, with about 30 children, of both sexes, including 16 adults. Also a first day school of pupils, from the ages of 6 to 55 which promises to be useful to both the old &; young. The education of these people has been very much neg- lected. When about to leave their settlements they deputed one of their number, who could speak broken english, to call upon me &; inform me on behalf of the rest, that they were much pleased with my visit. That it reminded them of those days, when Friends labored among them, and that they had often been sorry that Friends left them; but they could not blame them, for Indian so slow to give up the custom of their ancestors. The Onondagas in Onondaga County number about 300 and occupy a tract of land about 3 1/2 miles square, which is held in common each having the privalege to improve, as much as he shall have cause for, on any part of the reservation; but not to encroach on his neighbors possession. Their farms are estim- ated, from 5 to 300 Acres, most of which appear to be under pretty good cultivation, they have some few Orchards, and they raise several kinds of grain, and vegetables in use in that section.