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lings exhibit a degree of social comfort ; and 

 as some of them are become decided Christians, 

 encouragement is afforded to anticipate suc- 

 cess in seeking to benefit and civilize others of 

 the North American Indians. 



At Queenstown I hired a light travelling 

 waggon for Burlington Bay, Lake Ontario, 

 where the Mohawk chief, Mr, Brandt, resided. 

 He received me with much kind hospitality, 

 and the next morning accompanied me to the 

 River Ouse, or Grand River, where several 

 tribes of Indians are stationary, to the number 

 of about two thousand. This well-educated 

 and intelligent chief informed me, that his de- 

 ceased father, Captain Brandt, the celebrated 

 chief of the Mohawk Indians, made choice of 

 the tract of land, at the close of the Revolu- 

 tionary war, which was specified in the general 

 proclamation of 1784, by the Lieutenant- 

 Governor of the province of Upper Canada. 

 They were to occupy the country six miles in 

 width, on each side, following the whole course 

 of the Ouse, or Grand River, from its source. 

 Since the above period the quantity of land has 

 been curtailed ; and when the subject was dis- 

 cussed by them in council, one of the chiefs 

 said, ' Perhaps they wish that we should all die 5 



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