surpassed any idea we had of their stores. The loss of the
enemy was ten scalps, seven prisoners, and two whites retaken;
ours, one killed and one wounded.

"After laying part of four days in their towns, and finding all
attempts to bring them to a general action fruitless, we
retired, as the season was far advanced and the weather
threatening. I could not learn by the prisoners that they had
the least idea of General Irvin's design of penetrating into
their country. Should he have given them another stroke at
Sandusky, it will more than double the advantages already
gained.

"We might probably have got many more scalps and prisoners--could
we have known in time whether or not we were discovered, which we
took for granted until getting within three miles when some
circumstances occurred that gave us reason to think otherwise,
though uncertain.--Col. Floyd, with 300 men, was ordered to
advance and bring on an action or attack the town, Major Wells
with a party of horse being previously detached by a
different route as a party of observation: although Col.
Floyd's motion was so quick as to get to the town but a few
minutes later than those who discovered his approach, the
inhabitants had sufficient notice to effect their escape to
the woods by the alarm cry being given, and which was repeated by
all that heard it; of course our party only fell in with the
rear of the enemy.

"I must beg leave to recommend the militia of Kentucky whose
behaviour on the occasion does them honour, particularly their
desire of saving prisoners."

The document is here given as found in Almon's _Remembrancer_,
xvi., pp. 93, 94; but it has of course been edited, after the
fashion of that day, for Clark's original letters abound in
misspellings.--R. G. T.

[13] [264] This heroine had but recently returned from
Philadelphia, where she had received her education, and was
totally unused to such scenes as were daily exhibiting on the
frontier. She afterwards became the wife of Mr. McGlanlin; and
he dying, she married a Mr. Clarke, and is yet living in Ohio.

[14] See p. 224, _note_ 1, for reference to confusion between
the two sieges of Wheeling, and the over-statement of early
borde