faults, I may venture to invite you, when you unbend from the useful and honourable labours to which your valuable time is devoted, to trace this feeble delineation of an excellent, though unembellished character; and of the rapid pace with which an infant society has urged on its progress from virtuous simplicity, to the dangerous "knowledge of good and evil :" from tremulous imbecility to self-sufficient independence. To be faithful, a delineation must necessarily be minute. Yet if this sketch, with all its imperfections, be honoured by your indulgent perusal, such condescension of time and talent must certainly be admired, and may, perhaps, be imitated by others. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your faithful, humble servant, THE AUTHOR. London, Oct. 1808. CONTENTS. Page Return of Colonel Schuyler and the Sachems to the interior-Lit- erary acquisitions-Distinguishes and instructs his favourite niece State of religion among the settlers--Instruction of children devolv- ed on females-to whom the charge of gardening, etc. was also |