Tlie people appear to be poor, but very considerate; and I lia^ e reason to believe there is more i^iety in Stuben, in proportion to the N" of inhabitants, than in any town on Connecticut Eiver. I iind the schools very destitute of books of all kinds. This people are progressing, however, very rapidly towards good order and good schooling. No meeting-liouse. The chh. being in want of Eooks suitable to be read upon the Sabbath, I gave them one volume of the Select Sermons. I think it proper to return to this place again.

Western, (Easiern Settlement -j) 5 miles from Stuhcn August^ Wth. -- Preached in the evening to about 40 people, mostly baptists. This people are in a poor situation as to religion and order ; and I have found no people who need assistance more. They are, a few excepted, extremely ignorant, and tlie ignorant method ist preachers are leading them into errors and all kinds of disorder. Appointed a lecture to-morrow at 5 o'clock, 2 miles west. Am treated with great kindness.

August 12th, -- Preached to a congregation principally Methodists-- 2 metliodist preachers present. Put up with Gen. Floyd, wdio informs me that the methodists are making great strides, and appear to be doing some good as well as mucli hurt. Previous to tlieir meetings the Sabbath was almost wliolly disregarded by ye great body of the people, and they were but little removed from a heathenish state ; but that now, whatever disorders tliere may be in their meetings, they appear to have become moral in all their conduct, and to be impressed in their minds with a sense of Divine tilings. Gen. Floyd thinks that many of the best characters among them, when they have had time to reflect, and wdien their passions are a little subsided, will fall off from this sect, and will become presbyteriansor congregationalists.