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^52 American Revolutions
thing is man! " How noble in reafon! how excellent in faculties! in form and moving, hov/ exprefs and admirable! in adlion, how like an angel! in apprehenfion, how like a God! The wonder of angels, the paragon of animals!**
CHAP. XLIV.
Major Lee surprises the British garrison at Poivles Hook, Unsuccessful expedition against Penobscott,
IN O V7 there was a certain young man from Virginia, and his name was Lee,*
2. He was. a ftar of the firfl magnitude in the rifmg empire of Columbia, he was a chief among the warriors of the Provinces.
3. His rinng glory fhone forth like the beams of the fun, his valiant acls eclipfed the
- J;noi; Lee.