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limits were both very circumscribed, Notwitli* 

 standing the remote period when their ancestors 

 were induced to abandon their forests, and the 

 barbarous customs of savage life, and the pre- 

 sent inoffensive demeanour of their offspring, 

 they have not yet acquired the regularity of 

 habit and patient industry that are necessary 

 to the complete formation of civilized society, 

 nor indeed will the hopes of those who have 

 had opportunities to observe the peculiarities 

 of their character, and try them by the opinions 

 of philosophers and humanists, ever be very 

 sanguine that longer time or greater exertion 

 will effect a more radical conversion; to prevent 

 a falling off from the improvement already made 

 is perhaps as much as may reasonably be looked 

 for. That the fierce and restless spirit of the 

 wandering savage has been tamed into some^ 

 thing like docility cannot be denied ; as a proof, 

 it may be adduced, that some of the men of 

 this village, and also some of those of the village 

 of the two mountains, have lately been employed 

 as auxiliaries in the British army, and during 

 the periods of their service no difficulty has 

 been found in bringing them under strict sub- 

 jection, or confining their operations within the 

 laws of modern warfare. Between the island 

 of Montreal and the main opposite to Coghna- 

 waga village the breadth of the Saint Lawrence 



