524  Confumption of Corn—Country South of Lake Ontario,  [Augult 
haps an impertinent an{wer has been given! 
—But fhould not fome allowance be made 
for.a flight and tranfient want of temper 
ana perfon expofed to the fatigues,—to 
the contumelious taunts and infults too 
frequently attendant ona fervile condition? 
Surely it is the duty of parents to re- 
eover and reclaim their child; and not: to 
expofe to mifery, and the almoft confe- 
quent commiffion of crimes,—not to pur- 
fue with inexorable hatred the foul and 
body of her, whoie faults, arifing from a 
momentary imprudence, not from a fet- 
tled and habitual turpitude of mind, wif- 
dom would teach us to conceal, and hu- 
manity to forgive! Iam, Sir, 
Your humble fervant, 
: Jere l dp 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
-N looking into your ufeful and enter- 
taining Magazire, for June 1796. In 
an Effay on the Laws relating to Corn, it 
is {tated that the confumption of England 
and Wales is 13,954,474 quarters annu- 
ally (exclufive of feed).—Dr. Brakenridge, 
in 2 letter publifhed in the Philofophical 
‘Franfactions, vol. XLIX, eftimated the 
confumption 11756 at 2,026,100 quar- 
ters, calculating a population of 6,078,300 
perfons. Jf your ingenious correfpon- 
dent B. would be fo obliging as to ftate 
the data upon which he makes his calcu-* 
lations, if they can be verified, they will 
prove an amazing increafe in our agricul- 
ture fince that period. 
Fune 17; Your humble fervant, 
¥799- Ww. C. 

For the Mouthly Macazine. 
Extra& of a Letter, dated Ofober, 1798, 
trom DaANitEL MackInNEN, £/g. Bar- 
rifler at Law, to Major —————, 
giving an Account of the Country South 
6f Lake ONTARIO. 
HE country through which I travel- 
| led extends Weft of the fources of 
the Mohawk River, along the fouthern 
fhore of Lake Oxterie*® to the ftream 
which conne&ts it with Lake Erie, and 
forms the boundary of Upper Canada. 
‘Ten years ago it was for the moft part a 
walt unexplored icrett, affording tiultenance 
to a few tribes of wandering Indians. To 
beiold what it has become in this fhort in- 
terval cf time may be an obje&t of fome 
intereft and curiefity—withcut. therefore 
attempting to elevate the fubject by fan- 
* Called Cadaraguai, by the Indians. 



ciful defcription, T will endeavour to give 
you a faithful and accurate pi€ture of the 
country which I have jult vifited, having 
previoufly fibmitted my remarks to the 
infpection of fome of its moft refpectable 
inhabitants. From the account of an in- 
telligent traveller who took this journey 
about fix years ago, fome idea may be 
formed of its {tate at that recent period of 
time—‘* The road, fays he, is little better 
than an Indian peth—we found only a 
few ftraggling huts from ten to twenty 
miles from each other, affording nothine 
but the conveniency of fire and a kind of 
fhelter froin the fnow.””—Defcription of the 
Genefee country,—Printed at Albany, 1798. 
I left Fort Schuyler, a {mall town fituated 
near the weftern extremity of the Mohawk 
River, in the beginning of O&ober, 1798. 
We proceeded over a gentle rifing from the 
beautiful fhore of the Mohawk, fcreened 
on the South by an elevated range of hills, 
through a country which for twelve miles 
affords a ftriking proof ef what may be 
effected by the induftry of ten years. The 
fettlement here called New Hartford ex- 
hibits a continuation of handfome farms 
on each fide of the weftern road, with neat 
and convenient dwelling houfes, and the 
appearance of all thofe comforts which 
are the firit rewards of agricultural labour. 
— There was nothing to indicate what is 
called a new country, but the ftanding 
fore(t which appeared about a quarter or 
half a mile from us on each fide in the 
rear of the farms, and the numerous 
ftumps and burnt trunks: of trees which 
had been deftroyed. Our courfe lay 
through a traét of land named The Oneida 
Refervation, near the centre of which lies 
a village, the prefent caftle or chief refi- 
dence of the OneidaIndians. The whole 
of the country which I am about to de- 
{cribe,was formerly the territory of the Six 
Indian Nations, calied by the French writ- 
ers The Iroquois. ‘They were the original 
lords of the major part of the ftate of New 
York, and held fubje& to them many in- 
ferjor and tributary tribes or communities. 
From the earlieft aad moft authentic ac- 
counts, it appears that nearly two hun- 
dred years ago they were in poffeflion of 
all the prefent ftate of New York lying 
weit of the Hudfon or North River. The 
Mohawks (who now refide in Upper Ca- 
nada) on the firft difcovery of this coun- 
try, were fettled along the fouth banks of 
that interefting river, which will probably 
bear their name much longer than the exift- 
ence of their-race: the Oxzeidas, another 
band ot the confederates, make this refer- 
vation their chief refidence: the reft the 
. ' Ouondagosy 
