Return of Colonel Schuyler and the Sachems to the interior-Literary acquifitions.-Diftinguishes and State of religion among the fettlers.-Inftruction of children devolved on females-to whom the charge СНАР. CHAP. X. Marriages, amufements, rural excurfions, &c. among The house and rural economy of the Flats. Birds CHAP. XVIII. Defcription of Colonel Schuyler's barn, the com mon, and its various uses, CHAP. XIX. Page 176 Military preparations. Difinterefted conduct the fureft road to popularity.-Fidelity of the Mohawks, 184 CHAP. XX. Account of a refractory warrior, and of the spirit which still pervaded the New England Provinces, CHAP. XXI. 192 Diftinguishing characteristics of the New York colonifts, to what owing. Hugonots and Palatines, their character, CHAP. XXII. 199 A child ftill-born-Adoption of children common in the province.-Madame's vifit to New York, 205 CHAP. XXIII. Colonel Schuyler's partiality to the military children fucceffively adopted.-Indian character falfely CHAP. XXIV. Progrefs of civilization in Europe.-Northern na tions inftructed in the arts of life by those they had subdued, Page 2201 CHAP. XXV. Means by which the independence of the Indians was first diminished, CHAP. XXVI. 233 Peculiar attractions of the Indian mode of life.Account of a fettler who refided fome time among them, 242 Indians only to be attached by being converted.The abortive expedition of Monf. Barre.-Ironical sketch of an Indian, 252 Management of the Mohawks by the influence of the Chriftian Indians, 261 CHAP. XXIX. Madame's adopted children. Anecdote of fifter Sufan, 273 СНАР. |