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tive to the Mission Stations ; also subjoin the names of‘ the villages with their condition, and the chiefs of each village, as far as I could ascertain them, which will show their progress, and their present state; and also those who have abandoned the Wigwam and the chase,

and resort to farming for a living.

1. CHIPPEWAS ON THE RIVER THAMES.

The Chippewas and Munsees occupy a tract of land contain- ing about 9000 acres, in the Township of Caradoc, within the London District, a distance of about twenty-five miles from the Moravian village. lt is only within ten years that the Chippe- was have been reclaimed from a wandering life, and settled in their present location. The Munsees have been settled since the year 1800, on land belonging to the Chippewas, with the consent of thattribe. The present number of Chippewas is 378, and of Munsees 242.

The Chippewas and Munsees are not collected in a village, but live on small farms scattered over their tract. Some of the Chippewas are settled on surveyed lots of twenty acres each. This tribe occupies 76 log houses, and six wigwams; they pos- sess 25 barns. They have 450 acres under cultivation. Their stock consists of 30 oxen. 27 cows, 44 heifers, 82 horses and colts, and 400 swine Their agricultural implements include 9 ploughs, 9 harrows, 23 scythes and sickles, 19 ox chains, 3. fanning mill, 4 wagons and carts, 7 spades, &c ; they have a. blacksmitlfs forge, and two and a half setts of carpenter-’s tools.

JOHN RILEY, Chief.

2. THE CHIPPEWAS AT AMHERSTBURG.

They all profess Christianity, and several of them are exam- ples of true piety. The ma_jo:‘ity are Wesleyan Methodists, and the others Roman Catholics. They have no place of Worship of their own. They can command the means. The Method- ist minister, however, whois stationed in the town of Amherst- burg, visits those of his persuasion every Sunday, and with the

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