been called the North-Western Territory; and
was not long ago the scene of an Indian war; but
peace was established by a treaty at Greeneville

in 1795; when a part of the territory was ceded
to the United States, together with some posts,
or trading stations, within the Indian part. Of
these Fort-Wayne is one. It is in the unceded
parts that the experiments have been made,
which are recorded in the following pages.

Both the Yearly Meetings seem to have lost
no time in beginning their work of brotherly
kindness to the Indians. The war had been
an obstruction; but we find the date of the
peace, and of the appointment of their com-
mittens, to be in the same year, 1795.

In the letter which forms the Appendix to
the Pennsylvanian account, an Indian chief, named
Little Turtle

, is spoken of in terms of great ap-
probation. It may therefore be particularly ac-
ceptable to see a speech of his in this narrative.

In the advertisement prefixed to the Penn-
sylvanian account, an apology is made for the
apparent absence of religious instruction as a
part of the plan. The concluding paragraph
of this account confirms the apology; but fu-
pressed the necessity of repeating it.

Probably, a slight geographical description,
may render the narrative more interesting to
some readers; and though maps are not always