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reserved for the future maintenance of the clergy. But no 

 provision is made for a capital to stock or cultivate the 

 tylh>n». The innovation seems only calculated to perplex 

 the future pastor* as well as their flocks, unless the legisla- 

 ture previously examine the validity of tythes in general. 



Schools. — Several attempts have been made to establish 

 township schools ; the want, however, of funds has hitherto 

 proved an insuperable objection. Lands, upon the same 

 principle as the ecclesiastical, have been reserved for this pur- 

 pose; but while the population of the country continues so 

 thin, such local provision for the master will not be suffi- 

 cient. There is reason to hope, however, that district 

 schools will soon be instituted, when, besides fees from the 

 scholars, it is supposed that salaries will be granted from 

 the levenues of the province. 



Missionaries. ^The Missionary Society of the United 



States have sent their agents amongst the Indians 5 but, 

 with the exception of the Quakers, few have succeeded in 

 producing even a disposition to moral or intellectual im- 

 provement. In only one village, Mr. Gilkison said, had 

 their labours been attended with any visible success. It is 

 situated on the river Thames in the western district, and 

 the Indians are of the Delaware nation. Several of the in- 

 habitants read, and also write a little ; they attend church 

 regularly, where sermons in their own and the English lan- 

 guage are delivered on Sundays. The women sing the 

 psalms and hymns with a respectable degree of skill, and 

 drinking is almost universally abandoned; which is the grand 

 previous step to furnishing the Indians with the means or 

 the matter of knowledge. 



II. Sum- 



