and often, exaggerated. Perhaps Dalton, who
puts it at 400 warriors^ dr 2j000 souls, during fed
American war, verges to the opposite extreme,
and actually underrates it. Be this :aS it may,
I found the entire Seneca population, within the
state, to he 2>383, residing on four reafervations
in the eountiesofMiagara and Genesee, Erie^
Chautauque,- Cattaraugus and Allegany.'4 They
were found to he divided into 538 families, who
cultivated, in the aggregate, 8,416 acres of land.
The produce of this land, as near as it couid he
obtained, as some declined " stating it, was, 21,-
341 bushels of corn, 3/?45 of wheat,' 20*039 of
oats, and 12,469 of potatoes, besidesfeuckwheat,
turneps, peas, and Smaller articles. They possess
1,537 neat cattle^lO milch cows, 626 horses,
335 sheep and 2,269 hogs. Other details of their
advance in agriculture ivere equally flattering/
They cut large quantitiekfof meadow land, pos^
sdsd an adequate supply of farming utensils;
carts/Wagons, including many ta&ty buggies and
sleighs/ "Very little of their feeans of subsistence,
even in the most unfavored positions, is
derived from the chase. . Upwards of 4,000 fruit
trees were counted. The style ; of their buildings,
fences and household furniture, as Well as
the dress of the males, is not essentially different,
and little, often nothing at all, inferior to that
of their white neighbors. Temperance and temperance
societies exist in a good state in each
canton. Fifteen of their youth * have received
a collegiate of academic education. A number
of thèse have studied professions. About 350 of
the children attend private or missionary schools,
and sp/far as I could obtain returns, some 250
adults . are - enrolled as members of protestant
churches. ^Of this number, there are several
catechists and intelligent educated translators
and interpreters of the language. On the four
reservations, there are fifteen native: mechanics
and tfeee ‘pjaysiçians. ,4,
'Thus it appears that the .energies once devoted
by their ancestors to war and hunting, are
in good earnest now directed to husbandry
and the art|;|and feere is every encouragement
to hope, and reason to believe, that by a continuance
in the best I measures, they, will be
wholly rèclaimed and added to the number of
useful, intelligent and 'moral citizens. In viewing
the Condition of such a people, hardy, well
formed and active, and pressing forward, as they
are,< in the great experiment of civilization, humanity
consoles itself with the hope, that the
energy and firmness of purpose which onée,carried
them, in pursuit of warlike glory, far and
wide, will develope itself* as it has already sig-
nally commenced to dp, in the labors of the field
and the workshop. Their rude picture-writing
upon the bark of trees, has given place to the
school. Their prophets’ lodges have been converted
into churches ; their midnight ^orgies, at
the Indian dRncing house, into societies to promote
temperance. It is hut applying present
experience to future results, to predict that these