He tells me all are at work and busy, but manifestly with repugnance, and merely temporarily -- that the tract intended for them is, in their minds, a Land of Canaan -- that they agree, it is a very dangerous place to settle at present, and for tliis reason it is that they are willing to have patience here for a couple of years. But they will not listen to Tar-making. He thinks tliis repugnance can be overcome as was that to cultivate their gardens -- and that the future will furnish with difficulty what the present time might easily guarantee, did the people conform to the intentions of those above them.

M^ CAST TO GOV. HUNTER.

[Translated.]

Sir I have received the 20 barrels of Pork w^liich I distributed among tlie people at this side and supplied all with some to the lO^h May. The people on the other side have been supplied to the 3^ May. This will cause Mr. Baggs to be looked for earlier than the 10'^ wdth his portion of pork. I never saw salted meat so poor nor packed with so much salt as this pork was. In truth, almost one eighth of it was salt.

I likewise received the 117 barrels of flour of Mr. Beekman. The following is the v/eight & the tare--

53 barrels are from M"" Beekman 32 from ]\Iad^ Ex^ in the widow, and 32 from M"" Rotzen

117 J

The experience that the tare of the Barrels is very incorrect, and that such deception causes the people not to take the flour in barrels according to the Tare, but ordinarily to return the barrels to me that I may make a new tare, led me to make a bet with Ml" Robert Levingston Junr that a barrel, tared 171bs.,