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guisKed of the modern Mohawks. It was lie who continued the 

 translation of the Gospels, begun by Brant. The letter of Teyoninho- 

 karawen which I possess is dated at Bath, in England, Dec. 24, 

 1804. It then proceeds thus : 



" Sir : The many important concerns that have occupied your 

 Excellency's time since you left the wilds of Canada to lament your 

 absence, may have left but imperfect traces on your mind of some of 

 its remoter parts and of its inhabitants. But with respect to them, 

 retired and sequestered from the busy world, nothing could intervene 

 to shade from their memories the grateful sense they retain of your 

 benevolent intentions towards them, and the active zeal with which 

 you were ever ready to pi'omote every measure in your power for the 

 welfare of that country and the various descriptions of people therein 

 residing, as also for those out of its boundary, but who ever faithfully 

 adhered to His Majesty's interests and relied on his fatherly pi-otection. 

 Since I have been in Britain," he continues, " I have greatly desired 

 to do myself the honour of waiting on your Excellency. But the 

 distance of your residence, and the business which occupied my atten- 

 tion, caused me to defer from time to time, till lately I came to Bath, 

 when I proposed myself that pleasure ; but by a pai-ticular arrange- 

 ment was so soon recalled to London as to put it out of my power 

 for that time. As I now hope to be able to remain for this week at 

 Bath, could your Excellency with propriety and convenience permit 

 me to wait upon you, I would do myself that honour any day you 

 might be pleased to appoint. With the greatest respect, I have the 

 honour to be, &g., John Norton, Teyoninhokarawen. — P.S. Please to 

 direct to meat Mr. Robert Barclay's, Bath." The peculiar use of the 

 woi'd " Britain " above reveals the Scottish tincture in the chief's 

 education. 



Norton, we are told, when in Bath appeared in the Pump Koom 

 in Indian costume, and the following scene is said to have occurred. 

 A yoiing EnglishmaUj who had been in America, accosted him, and 

 gave him to understand that he suspected him to be an impostor. 

 Norton calmly assured him to the contrary. " But then," returned the 

 other, " if you really are what you pretend to be, how will you relish 

 returning to the savages of your own country 1" " Sir," replied Nor- 

 ton, " I shall not experience so great a change in my society as you 

 imagine ; for I find there are savages in this country also." — Norton 

 proved liimself a useful ally to England in the war with the United 



