112 HISTORY * OF THE IROQtlOlS.
4,085 of oats, '1,160 -of potatoes, besides limited
quantitiesof peas, beans, buGkWheat.and tumeps:
They possess 336 nCat cattle, -98 milch cdws,(
making 7,537 poundsofbutter,' 153, horses, 215
sheep, arid 596 hogs;
When it is considered that this enumeration
gives an average of six neat cattle, three horses,*
(nearly),: two .milch cows (nearly)! 10 hogs, and
92 bushels of whbat,t and 966 of. corn to .each
family? their capacity to- sustain ‘themselves, and
their advance ris agriculturists will be per&eiYed>
Fifty-nine ploughs Were' found amongst fifty’*
three families* They cut 198 acrekof meridow to
sustain their cattle. They had ,9vet11^500 fruit
treesffrand dwelt in exe Client frame or square-
timber houses, well finished, and for thex most
part well furnished. I noticed one * edifice of
stone, in the process of building, seated on rising
grounds, amidst shade trees,'"Which denoteshrith
wealth and taste.' Other- results of civilization
are to be already observed.- Among these there
are no slight indications of classes of society,
arranging themselves, as rich and pdor,'d:nteHi-
gent and ignorant, industrious and idle, moral
arid immoral.
Of the entire populatidp, 63 are church members,
and 231 members of temperance societies,
which is a far higher proportion than is found
in any other of the cantons.
The Tuscaroras were probably admitted into
the confederacy about 1714. Nine years afterwards
the Iroquois received the Necariages. Under
this name the long expatriated Quatoghieg,
or Ilurons, then living at Teiodonderoghie or
Miqhilimackiriac, were taken into the confederacy
as the seventh Jri be? of canton; This act
was consummated in .the.reign of GfeprgdlL, at
a public council held at Albany 011 the 30fh May,
17^3, on their own desire. A delegation of eighty
men, who had their families with them, were
present. | Of this eutipn® transaction -,but little is
known. For although done -in faith, it was not
pereefved that a tribe so*far separated from the
main body, although now reconciled, and officially
incorporated, could not effectually coalesce and
act as one^. And accordingly, it does not appear
by the subsequent history - of the confederacy,
that theymvef came to Recognize, permanently,
the Necariages as a seventh nations. The foundation
for" this' act ofadmissiomhad been laid at
a-prior period by the daring and adroit policy of
Adario, who had so skilfully contrived to shift
thp atrocity of his own act5 in the capture of the
Iroquois delegates on-the,§t-. Lawrence, on the
governorrgeneral ofGanada.
It has been '.mentioned* ini,a preceding page,
that the .Iroquois1 recommended- their political
league,as a model to the colonies, long before
the American, revolution Was thought of. And
it is .remarkable that its typical character, in relation
to: our present union, should have been
also sustained, in the> feature of the admission,
if not annexation, of new tribes, who became
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