Flats, to Kerseymere

, where we breakfasted at
a very good inn, although about 200 miles inland.
In travelling this road, we sometimes observe ves-
tiges of the devastation formerly made, through
the instigations of the English or French Govern-
ments, by the Indians, as they were prevailed upon,
sometimes one power and sometimes by the
other, to join in their wars and quarrels. How
degrading that men, placed in authority, and pro-
fessing to be the followers of Christ, should be
thus employed in working upon the simplicity of
the poor Indians! In the afternoon we came to
Utica, an improving place, of considerable busi-
ness, a little distance from Fort Schuyler. In the
evening I came to B. S.'s, where I lodged and left
the horse which his son so kindly lent me at
Albany; having replaced him with one I bought
at Fort Schuyler.

11th Month, 21st.

This day I passed through
Clinton

, where I dined; and, in the evening came
to an Indian village, called Brothertown. Here I
was comfortably accommodated at the house of
an Indian, whose name was Obadiah Scipio. His
wife Elizabeth, is the daughter of an Indian Chief
of the name of Fowler. She was a personable
woman and of art expressive countenance, and
was very industrious. Her dairy produced ex-
cellent cheese and butter, notwithstanding a
great part of her time was employed in spin-