HISTORY OF THE IROQUOIS.
CHATTER I.
VITAL AIVTD AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
- PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS — OBSTACLES OPPOSED TO StATIS-
TICAt 'INQUIRIES i AMONG THE* NoRTH AMERICAN INDIANS —
PROGRESSIVE S^A^E OE Ajsfc^ULTURR—,EviLS pF THE An-
— Grains antd F ruit,s Raised — Ancient
and P resent S tate of the Iroquois P opulation compared
■“ General Deductions' on thEir ( ^ ngeritt, and E ffects
Climate-—PRopdfeTi&’N op Deaf and Dumb P ersons,
v L>i®te> and Blind t- R emnants of thr B ribes of A lgonquin
• ,,Lli|EA(JE pF^ S outhern Nfiwy YpRjs:— Abstract of the
+ ^ snsus Returns of t^ Qneidas, "Onondagas, Senecas i
1 AND^TusdAEORA^.
,lT is by the numbers of tile several tribes of
opr bforth Ameripan stocks of red men, compared
with their means of subsistence, and their
capacity pf producing1 the .supply, that we are
to judge of their advance or declension in the
scale of civilization. t The facts of their former
•History, thei$ achievements in arms, or their attachment
to. peculiar modes of life and policy, retain
an interest irrespective/ of their present con