[166] "Per diem," i.e., a day, or per day.
[167] Disinterested.
[168] A member of the light cavalry.
[169] "Carrying horses," i.e., carrying packs or burdens upon the back.
[170] Junior and subordinate officers.
[171] Muscovado sugar is brown sugar.
[172] Upon the site of this fort Pittsburg is built. The French were also fortified at Niagara and at Frontenac on Lake Ontario.
[173] The historian and philosopher. He was born in 1711 and died in 1776.
[174] "Bought servants," i.e., those whose service had been bought for a term of years (see Note 83, p. [69]).
[175] This dialogue and the militia act are in the Gentleman's Magazine for February and March, 1756.