Our victories were often purchased at the expénsé of their blood, for they were among the first in almost every danger.

The Mohawks have three villages--Schoare, Fort Hunter, and Canajohare. These are all within the English 'settlements, and contain four hundred and twenty souls. Fort Hunter, the central village, where a missionary from the Society now resides, is distant from Albany forty miles.* The Oneidas are situated eighty miles west from the Mohawks, somewhat beyond our settlements, and have two villages containing six hundred souls: Many of the Oneidas profess christianity, being instructed partly

* The city of Albany lies on Hudson's River, almost due north from the city 5 of New-York, and about 150 miles distant from it.

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by French Jesuits, partly by a dissenting teacher, lately: sent among them, but chiefly by the Society's missionaries to the Mohawks. Next to the Oneidas are the Onondagas, at the distance of forty miles westerly ; their number is eight hundred.

he Cayugas, amounting to one thousand and forty, are forty miles southwest of the Onondagas. The Senekas, forty miles northwest of the Cayugas, are in number four thousand, dispersed in several villages ; and the Tuscaroras amount to one thousand. 'Very few of the four tribes last mentioned have any impressions of christianity. The extensive country, inhabited by all these Indians, is open, healthy, and in general extremely fertile. It is watered by several rivers navigable for battoes, which are very advantageous to commerce, as there are only a few miles of Jand carriage from Albany to Oswego on Lake Ontario. These Nations are able to bring two thousand fighting men, at least, into the field.