f When the 54c parallel canlOvto be drawn,
under the provision of the treaty of Ghent, it cut
theoSt. Regis settlement unequally in two, leaving
the church and the larger portion of the Indian
population within the hounds of Canada.
Those, who reside1 within' the limits of "New
York, numbered two hundred and sixty souls
in d84«vV.
CHAPTÊR IY.
EPOCH AND PRINCIPLES OP THE IROQUOIS
: LEAGUE:? V
Objects ,0F Research E ra of the 'C0n<fet>eracï^ - P rinci-
of t|[eir"GoyernM'Knt’, a'nd the’ T otemic B ond—An-
'r) &XENF SYSTEM OF ASTRONOMY----WITCHCRAFT
-ITS T hEORJ, AND pRACTlCAi E ÿI l S,—iW lF E , S Rï& ^T TO
P r o p e r t y : ^Lim it e d R a t u r e of „M a r r ia g e C on tra ct ;-s—
, ItkE A OF, 4 y A JËP Y RE S : TRADITIONS ÏN REJFERENQE', TO.^
'/^Soiæething on this head appears desirable, if
it be only to mitigate, in some degree; our historical
ignorance, and want of accurate or precise
information, touching it'. The question of
the principles of their Social and’ political association,
i§v oné' ôf eqüal interest and obscurity,
and would justify a more-fextended inquiry than
.l^herè given;-’
t Chronology finds its most difficult tasks in
-establishing dates4'among our aboriginal tribes.
jPyrlaus, a missionary at the ancient site of Di-
,onderoga, or Fort Hunter, writing between 1742
and 1748, states, as the result of the best conjectures
he could form, from information derived
from the Mohawks, that the alliance took place
“ one age, or the length of a man’s life, before