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and Hawley visited successively the tribes on the Mohawk and Susquehannah rivers.'. The commencement of the French war, soon afterwards, interrupted all missionary efforts west of Albany, which were not renewed until 1761, when the Rev? Dr.Wheelock directed his attention to that quarter, and endeavoured: by introducing Indians, as missionaries and schoolmasters, to reclaim the Natives from their savage life. He gives the result of his efforts and experience, in these words:

'Among those whom I have educated, there haye been near forty. who were good readers and writers, and were instructed in the principles of the Christian religion, as their age, and time, would admit, and were sufficiently masters of English grammar, arithmetic, and a number considerably advanced in a knowledge of Greek and Latin, and one of them carried through college, and was a good scholar, and others carried through a course of learning with not less expence for each of them, than would have been necessary to have supported an English youth through a course of collegiate studies, and they have generally behaved well while they were with me, and left my school with fair and unblemished characters, and under the influence of every motive I could set before them, to a good improvement of the distinguishing talents which God had committed to them, and many of them have gone immediately from my school into good, and reputable business, and such business as they were equal to, and generally to serve as schoolmasters, but some as interpreters, &c. and nothing has prevented their being imployed usefully, and reputably in various capacities till this day, but their want of fortitude to resist the power of those fashionable vices which were rampant among all their tribes... .. Of all the number before mentioned, I dont hear of more than half who have preserved their characters unstain'd, either by a course of intemperance or uncleanness, or both; and some who on account of their parts, and learning, bid the fairest for usefulness, are sunk down into as low, savage, and brutish a manner of living as they were in before any endeavours were used with them to raise them up: and there are some of whom I did, and do still entertain hope that they were really the subjects of God's grace, who have not wholly kept their garments unspotted amongst the pots.