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a most auspicious bearing upon the religious in- 

 terests of the tribes of the N. W. Country. 



A school for the instruction of children in the 

 arts of life, and in the rudiments of science, as well 

 as in the principles of the christian religion, forms 

 the basis of the most efficient missionary exertions 

 among the Indians. The school among the Cher- 

 okees, is a most interesting object to christian be- 

 nevolence ; and as the fruit of it, the light of sci- 

 ence, and the still brighter light of the Sun of 

 Righteousness, is shedding a cheering radiance 

 over many minds, that would otherwise have been 

 shrouded in intellectual and moral darkness. The 

 school has received the unqualified approbation of 

 men of all descriptions who have visited it, among 

 whom are many persons of the most distinguished 

 character and rank in civil life. If such a school 

 were established, at a convenient place in the 

 N, W. Country, it would be as the day spring 

 from on high to a region, now overspread by an 

 intellectual and moral midnight. 



Men, occupied as the gentlemen of the North 

 West Company are, in the overwhelmina; cares 



of a vast commercial concern, would find it diffi- 



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