This is a large parish ; the towns are far distant ; the people were some duakers, some Anabaptists, but chiefly Presbyterians and Independents: they were violently set against our church, but now (blessed be God !) they comply heartily, for I have now above forty communicants, and had only six when I first administered that holy sacrament. I find that catechising on the wjek days in the remote towns, and frequent visiting is of great service, and I am sure that I have made twice more proselytes by proceeding after that method than by public preaching. «=

Mr. Muirson, besides his salary of £50 from the Society, wa;S entitled to £50 currency, as settled by act of Assembly on Rye parish ; but as his people were poor and for the most part recent converts, he considerately forbore to press his legal claim, and during the first two years of his ministry, had only received about ten or twelve pounds currency ; thus plainly showing he sought not theirs but them.

"The following account of the Indians, written in the year 170S, will be thought interesting. As to the Indians, the natives of the country, they are a decaying people^ We have not now in all the parish twenty families, whereas not many years ago there were several hundreds. I have frequently conversed with some of them, and been at their great meetings of " pawawing," as they call it. 1 have taken some pains to teach some of them, but to no purpose, for they seem regardless of instruction, and when I have told them of the evil consequences of their hard drinking, &c., they replied that Englishmen do the same, and