of Half-pay or Military Colony to those parts: "more than 1,400
persons disbanded officers, soldiers and marines, under Colonel
Edward Cornwallis," Brother of the since famous Lord Cornwallis.
[Coxe's--Pelham,--ii. 113.] Who landed, accordingly, on that rough
shore; stockaded themselves in, hardily endeavoring and enduring; and
next year, built a Town for themselves; Town of HALIFAX (so named from
the then Lord Halifax, President of the Board of Trade); which stands
there, in more and more conspicuous manner, at this day. Thanks to you,
Captain Coram; though the ungrateful generations (except dimly in CORAM
Street, near your Hospital) have lost all memory of you, as their wont
is. Blockheads; never mind them.

The SECOND thing is, an "Ohio Company" has got together in Virginia;
Governor there encouraging; Britannic Majesty giving Charter (March,
1749), and what is still easier, "500,000 Acres of Land" in those Ohio
regions, since you are minded to colonize there in a fixed manner.
Britannic Majesty thinks the Country "between the Monongahela and
the Kanahawy" (southern feeders of Ohio) will do best; but is not
particular. Ohio Company, we shall find, chose at last, as the eligible
spot, the topmost fork or very Head of the Ohio,--where Monongahela
River from south and Alleghany River from north unite to form "The
Ohio;" where stands, in our day, the big sooty Town of Pittsburg and
its industries. Ohio Company was laudably eager on this matter;
Land-Surveyor in it (nay, at length, "Colonel of a Regiment of 150 men
raised by the Ohio Company") was Mr. George Washington, whose Family
had much promoted the Enterprise; and who was indeed a steady-going,
considerate, close-mouthed Young Gentleman; who came to great
distinction in the end.

French Governor (La Gallisonniere still the man), getting wind of this
Ohio Company still in embryo, anticipates the birth; sends a vigilant
Commandant thitherward, "with 300 men, To trace and occupy the Valleys
of the Ohio and of the St. Lawrence, as far as Detroit." That officer
"buries plates of lead," up and down the Country, with inscriptions
signifying that "from the farthest ridge, whence water trickled towards
the Ohio, the Country belonged to France; and nails the Bourbon Lilies
to the forest-trees; forbidding the Indians all trade with the English;
expels the English traders from the towns of the Miamis; and writes
to the Governor of Pennsylvania, requesting him to prevent all fa