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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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They have also an Income
from general Government
of 350 Dollars a year: They
do not appear ignorant in
any considerable Degree, of
good Matters of tilling their
Ground: most Families have
one Cow, and some of them
have Several; that little appears
to be wanting here but a spi-
rit of Industry, Sobriety and fru-
gality, to make these people,
not only tolerable, but easy
in their Circumstances: and
to this End a skillful provision
for the Security of private In-
terest might much contribute.

Here it may be seasonable
to