VI. Description of Albany—Manner of living 37 there—Hermitage, &c. VII. Gentle treatment of slaves among the 41 Albanians—Consequent attachment of domestics—Reflections on servitude VIII. Education and early habits of the 46 Albanians described IX. Description of the manner in which the 52 Indian traders set out on their first adventure X. Marriages, amusements, rural excursions, 62 &c. among the Albanians XI. Winter amusements of the Albanians, &c. 68 XII. Lay-brothers—Catalina—Detached Indians 73 XIII. Progress of knowledge—Indian manners 79 XIV. Marriage of Miss Schuyler—Description of 87 the Flats XV. Character of Philip Schuyler—His 92 management of the Indians XVI. Account of the three brothers 96 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