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8o American RevohUion.

10. Then the Inhabitants of the land, even the Canadians, furthermore anfwered, and faid, It feemeth not good unto us to harken unto 5^ou in this matter; for our wives and our children are too tender to bear the jour- ney : and moreover, is this not the land of our nativity, and do we not dwell amongfl: our own people? nay verily, but we will flay here, and lo 1 if we perifh, we perifh!

11. And the captains of the hofl of Co- lumbia, feeing that they could not prevail, they ceafed importuning the people, and jur- neyed on their way, and Guy, and the hoft of the men of Britain, followed hard after them; and they were at their wits end, Ne- verthelefs, they efeaped to the hold called Crown-Point, where they fojourned for a time,

12. Now yobn, was chief captain of the hofl: of the people of the provinces, in that quarter; and as Guy was purfuing after the hoft, it came to pafs, that at any time, when the foldiers of the king of Britain, came nigh