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ihe 1fohegdns.-T There Is still remaining n the vicinity of Norwich, (Genn.) remnant oi the inollegan tribe of indians. An industrious compiler has collected the notwithstanding facts ii their history since their irconnexionw wththe whites, and furnished it as contribution to the Nor wieh Courier. We have extracted from this communication, all that is of ether than local interest, for the information of our readers.

 Uacas, their Chiei, who lived in the neighbor hood of Fort Hill, or Mohegan Hill, command ing beautiful and extensive prospect, exhibited his friendship to the whites. or the English. as itiley were called, as early as l637, by accompa- inying them with hs warriors in Masons ccebra- lted expedition against the pequods. For forty years he rendered the English important servi- lees, until his death, about the year l67G. In 1857, Uncas and his two sons, Owaneco and Attawanhood, gave, by decd, to certain per sons, amongst whom was the Rev. James Fitch, d tract of land nine miles square, constituting the present town of Norwich, thena part of Mo hogan.

 In l660, Mir. Fitch, with most of his church and congregation, removed from Say brook and settled there. Of this settlement the Mohegans were for years the defence, keeping scouts, aud Ispies, and in times of danger, building wigwams Inear the town. So powerful was the Mohegan tribe, that in l645. when the great battle was fought with Miantonimoh, Sachem of the Mar lragansets, Uncas had under him about 450 war lriors.

 In l705, there were only I50-l00 of whom had been in the actual service of the country in that year. In l799, there remained only eighty

 four individuals of the ancient tribe, divided ir- l to thirty-eight families. At present, 1880, the number of Indians at Mobegan is between 60 and TO. This diminuton of the once powerful

 Mohegans, is to be ascribed in rart at least, to

 the Indians well known love of occQpee or strong

 uater which they easily obtain, in consequence l of the cupidity or wickcdness of the whites.-

 Many of the tribe have been well educated

 adopted the Christian faith, and had Christian

 ministers. In TITO, out of one hundred and leighty-three residing at Groton, forty-four were

 able to read, and seventeen were members of the

 Church.

 l Samson Occum, the most distinguished lndi-

 an preacher, and the first who ever visited Great

 Britain was born at Mohegan about the year l l7s3, and died at New Stockbfidge, near Utica, 1 in the state of New York, July, l7S2, aged l 6o years.

 In the winter of 1747-48, he kept a

 school in New London; afterwards he went to

 .1lontduk, on Lond Island, where he kept a school

 among the Indians 10 or II years. During the l time he conducted public worship three times

 every Sabbath, and every Wednesday evening

 reading the scriptures and exponnding in the h. dian language. He invented the following me thod of teaching children the alphabet: he glued

 the letters to small chips of cedar, A B

 dsc. and put them in order on a bench, and then