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Show x6o TRAVELS THROUGH NORTII AMERICA: 1 {1 s mtni(· rc<l by the Indians, nnd the houfc, the very fpot w JlC ·c 1c w, . _ . . . Th. h:1nt1'ul )Olin'.,. LHiy bad b en tht: place of her wtcnncnt. 15 ' - , ' . , . I , . . I n ·rr 's ·mnv w 10, a:1 10\. 01 let engaged to an officer 111 Genera tllo 0Y11c · . ·' . .. l • 0· a ·tiC'> ~r omrr about 1. t 1c fi1fety, aS t!JCr\! WCI"C fever,1J 1111r.HI 111g r• I. ::J b . ' . . h . , fl.., 1. ·:1 {; nt a 113,-ty o! trufly lndtatJS to efcot t nuohboUJ hood W Cl t: l uC I Vl:l , . . u "f] ·{'· r ,. } trl 1 artly cx:ccutt:(i thetr comnttiliou, her to tLl: tamp. 1c t.: tH. 1.11 s 1, r . . . I . .tl tl'el·r· ch··r''"~ in {jnllt ol the Bnt1f11 camp, and w~rc approac ·nng WI 1 • •· t• -=> • • • I 1 . . t by another fct of Imli~ n bclongtn!.,. to a dtf1..::ent w 1en t 1cy WCJC tnt c • • • tribe, that was alfo atttnding the Britifh army at tl-us tt.mc. In a few minutes it became a mattt:r of difp utt: k:twecn them whtch f11oul have the honour or conducting her to the camp; from words they came t_o 11 d bl l WJS on the 1 1oint af bcin rr drawn, .vhen one of theu· 1 ows, an oot , o . . . ... chiefs, to fettle the matter without farther mJiducf, wen ~ up to M1Js M'Crca, and kilkd her 011 the fp t with a blow of lJis tomahawk. The objcB: of contention b.::ing t 11 US rcmoveci ' the In ians rcturneLl qniet1y ~ 0 the camp. The cnormit~ of the crime~ however,_ was _too great not to attraCt pubic notice, and 1t tun~ed the 11111~ds of c~ery perfoa a rainfl the India.ns, who had not before WJtneifed their fer Clty on oc-alions equally 01ocking to humanity. The impolicy of e~nploying fuch barbarians w::.t now fir on rd y rc probated, and in a !h rt tm1c afte.rwards mofl: of them were difinifr J from our army. Fort Edward flanc.ls ncar the river. The town of the fame n::.tme, is at the diflan c of one or two hum1 red yard from it, and contains abont twenty houf~s. Thus far we had rr t on toler; bly well; but from hence to Fort Anne, which was alfo difmantled prior to the late war, the road is moil: wretched, pa rti nlarly over a long caufeway between the two forts, forme o igi n, lly for the tranfpo rting of cannon, the foil here bei:tg extremely moifi: and heavy. The caufewa.y conf1fl: s of large trees laid i1 e by fide tranfverfcly. fomc of w·hich ha~ing decayed, great inten·als arc left, wherein the wheels of the carnage were fomct' m s lo 1 cd fo fafi that the 1orfcs alone could 1 ot pofiibly extricate them. To have remained in the carriage over this part of the road would really have b eo a fevere punifbtn nt; for although boafied of as ·being the very bcft in Alb, ny, it had no fort of fprings, and wa. 'v o o D S. 16 r was 'n f..tCt little u e tt~r t~1an a common w·1o·o·on. w, tl1 ·r r - 1· 1 ' bO , L: Ll () I ~ a .. r l t... , took our gnns, and amuh.l ourfelvcs with fhooti1w ~s \1, \"" 1'·, 1:. 1 . lJ """ \.; \o'f.l ..... 1-l '~ i l~' through t 1e woo s. The wood! h .:rc had a much 11 ore 111 1ic'1:ic a .~ 1 J l pcaranc.e t Ja~ any that we had bcforc met with on our way fl"om I 1 i-ladelplHa; th1 s, however, was owing more to th •.; great hei ~ht tb· 11 to tl1c th i~kn~fs of the trees, for I co·1ld not fcc one tb.lt a pp~;1red more th, n thu·ty 1nches in diameter; indc ·d, in general, the Q:irt oft c trees in the woods of America i but very fm1ll in proportion ~o their hci rrht and trifling in comparifon of that of the fordl: trees in Great Bri;~ti n: The thickdl: tree I ever f.1w in tl1e cou1 try was a fyc.unorc, which gr w upon the banks of the Shenandoah River, jufl: at it' junCtion with the Patowmac, in a bed of rich earth, clofc to the water ; yet t1 1i tree was no more th an about fo ur feet four inches in diameter. On th low grounds in Kentucky, and on fomc.: of. the l.Jottom in the wcflern t<;rritory, it is faid that trees ~n- commonly to be met with f< vcn :u d eirYht fee t in diameter. Where this is the cafe, the trees mufl c.rt:1ir ly g1~w much farther apart than they do in th woods in the middle fiates, towards the Atlantic, for there they fpring up (( very clofc to encl oth r, that it is abfo1utc1y impoDibl for them to attain o a 0 r at di 1- metcr. T he woods here were campo.{( d chiefly of oaks t , h iccory, hemlock, and beech trees, intermix d with which, appc:1rcd great numbers of the fmooth bark or Weymouth pines, as they are cal!ctl, th~t feet .tJn oil pecnliar t~ th~s part of the country. A profufioo of wild r .pbcrrics were growmg 111 the woods here, r ally of a very good fl.lV ll r : they ar commonly found in the woods to the north ward of tl1is; in Canada th ey abound every where. Beyond 1< ort Anne, which is fituated at the difhncc of i 0 ht miles from Fort Edward, the roads being better, we once more mounted into our vehicle ; but the miferablc horfes, quite jaucd, now made a dead ftop; in v.ain the driver bawled, and fiamped, and [wore; h:l. whip had bc:en prcv10u.Oy worn out fome hours, owing to the fi·equcnt ulc he had • There are upwards of twenty diflerent kinds of oaks in Ameri,a. y made |