Were proper Measures taken for the Purpose, there can be no Doubt, but much more might be done this Way. Nothing but the Want of those Measures, and their Connections with the Nations of their Confederacy, still buried in Darkness and Barbarity, at the Head of which they are ambitious to figure, prevent it. If the Mohawks were intirely to adopt our Manners, their Influence over the other Tribes would be at an End. But if these Tribes were instructed as They are, the Case would be very different.

As to the Notion that the Iroquois cannot be converted to Christianity, it is utterly groundless. Not to mention the great Number of Converts made by the French among Nations bordering on the Iroquois, and equally barbarous; the Success of the few Missionaries we sent among them, is a sufficient Refutation of it. In the year 1745 Dr. Barclay, the Society's Missionary to the Mohawks, was obliged in Consequence of the French War, - and Practices of Popish Emissaries, to abandon Fort Hunter. He had resided in that Mission 8 years only: during which Time the Iroquois were often engaged in War. This worthy Missionary had no Interpreter; his Life was frequently in Danger ; besides numberless other Difficulties he had to struggle with. Yet his Congregation consisted at his Departure, of no Jess than 500 Indian Converts, of whom more than 80 were regular communicants; which was more than Double the number he found there at his first coming. If so great a Progress could be made in christianising the Indians amidst so many Obstructions ; Reason will tell us that much greater Progress might be made in it at present, when those Embarrassments are removed.