
          is on any of the maps. Spencer Academy is some
 twelve or fifteen miles to the north of it. I only go for
 the winter, being altogether uncertian how the climate of
 that country will suit me, & just at this time there
 is a vacancy in the corps of teachers at that institution
 wh. [which] cannot otherwise be filled until May. I
 can fill the gap probably. There are upwards of 120
 boys young men all Choctaws at the Academy; I shall
 probably have the care & instruction of some 25
 or 30. But I can give few or no particulars until
 I have been on the ground. The institution is well
 endowed by the Indians act & their annuities. They have
 appropriated $6000 a year; the M.S. government adds
        