At the same time considerable encouragement was given to a number of young men

to go into the Indian Country as far as the Pass between the great Lakes at the Falls of Iagara, to

learn the language of these Indians, and to renew the Trade with the far Indians which our Traders

have disused ever since the beginning of the Wars with France This they could not be persuaded to undertake of themselves having of late fallen into the more safe and less toilsome Trade with the

French tho less profitable The Government has pursued this with a good deal of diligence notwithstanding many difficultys put in the way by the merchants who trade with the French & these measures are likely to have a very happy effect, to strengthen the British Interest on this continent. For if the Indians shall be once convinced that the French cannot supply them with the Goods they want or that they are furnished much cheaper by the English

it will take off

the dependance of the remote Indians on

the

French, which has been increasing of late to the Great Danger of this province, in case of a War, as well as to the loss of its trade in time of Peace,

What is already done has had so good

that but a few days ago 80 Indian Men, besides Women

&

effect,

Children arrived at Albany from the furthest nation who live about the place called by the French Missilimakenak 1200 miles distant