other. Oneida,
Cayuga, Canandaigua, Seneca, and George, are all lakes of thirty miles
in length, while those of a size smaller are without number. On most of
these lakes there are now beautiful villages, and on many of them
steamboats.

[24] These harangues of the beasts are frequent among the Indians. They
often address their victims in this way, reproaching them for cowardice,
or commending their resolution, as they may happen to exhibit fortitude,
or the reverse in suffering.

[25] A dish composed of cracked corn and beans. It is much used also by
the whites. By corn is meant maize.

[26] William Penn was termed Minquon by the Delawares, and, as he never
used violence or injustice in his dealings with them, his reputation for
probity passed into a proverb. The American is justly proud of the
origin of his nation, which is perhaps unequalled in the history of the
world; but the Pennsylvanian and Jerseyman have more reason to value
themselves in their ancestors than the natives of any other State, since
no wrong was done the original owners of the soil.

[27] Turtle.

[28] A tree which has been partially or entirely stripped of its bark is
said, in the language of the country, to be "blazed." The term is
strictly English; for a horse is said to be blazed when it has a white
mark.

[29] The American forest admits of the passage of horse, there being
little underbush, and few tangled brakes. The plan of Hawkeye is the one
which has always proved the most successful in the battles between the
whites and the Indians. Wayne, in his celebrated campaign on the Miami,
received the fire of his enemies in line; and then causing his dragoons
to wheel round his flanks, the Indians were driven from their covers
before they had time to load. One of the most conspicuous of the chiefs
who fought in the battle of Miami assured the writer, that the redmen
could not fight the warriors with "long knives and leather-stockings";
meaning the dragoons with their sabres and boots.

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