However, let the success be what it will, to me the duty seems plain. I have not only mentioned this to you, but in my letter to the Lord of Loudon, & shall patiently wait for his and the Society's commands therein.

I will now proceed to give you direct answers to tlie several ' quei'ies mentioned in yoiu-s. Having as yet only spuke to the fijst, so shall now take the rest in course.

As for Mf Moor's mission, you will imdoubtedly have the

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account thereof very fully by jSP Talbot, whose place he supplies, having not thought it "worth the while to stay at Albany. As for my opinion in that matter, I tliink it is too hea^y for the Society to meddle with at present, and would properly lie as a burthen upon the Crown, to be defrayed out of the revenue here. For their being brought over to our Holy faith will, at the same time, secure them in their fidelity to the government.'^ And not only that, but the Society will, I beheve, find employment enough for their money in sending of missionaries amongst those who call themselves Christians, on the coast of America, which I find to be their resolution. And it is certainly the greatest charity in the world to have the best Eeligion^ planted in these parts, wliich, with time, will in all probability, be so vast ia Country and People.

But whether the charge of missionaries for converting the , Indians fall to the share of the Crown or the Society, to efiect that matter well and thoroughly, those sent over on that errand, must be such as can endui-e hardships, and are able and willing to live with the Indians in their own country and according to their way and manner, which are the methods the French take.