XVII. The house and rural economy of the 98
Flats—Birds and insects
XVIII. Description of Colonel Schuyler’s barn, 104
the common, and its various uses
XIX. Military preparations—Disinterested 108
conduct, the surest road to
popularity—Fidelity of the Mohawks
XX. Account of a refractory warrior, and of 112
the spirit which still pervaded the
New-England provinces
XXI. Distinguishing characteristics of the 115
New-York colonists, to what
owing—Huguenots and Palatines, their
character
XXII. A child still-born—Adoption of children 118
common in the province—Madame’s visit
to New-York
XXIII. Colonel Schuyler’s partiality to the 122
military children successively
adopted—Indian character falsely
charged with idleness
XXIV. Progress of civilization in 126
Europe—Northern nations instructed in
the arts of life by those they had
subdued
XXV. Means by which the independence of the 133
Indians was first diminished
XXVI. Peculiar attractions of the Indian mode 137
of life—Account of a settler who
resided some time among them
XXVII. Indians only to be attached by being 142
converted—The abortive expedition of
Mons. Barre—Ironical sketch of an
Indian
XXVIII. Management of the Mohawks by the 147
influence of the christian Indians
XXIX. Madame’s adopted children—Anecdote of 152
sister Susan
XXX. Death of young Philip Schuyler—Account 159
of his family, and of the society at
the Flats