While the enemy is threatening invasion and Willett is preparing to repel him, let us turn from the exciting chronicle, and resume our quiet journey, in the course of which some of the stirring incidents of the subsequent strife between the patriots and the enemy, in Tryon county, will come up in review.
* This was upon the Canajoharie Creek, near the junction of its two branches, in the town of Root.
** Willett's Narrative.
Changes in the Mohawk Country.—Present Aspect of the Mohawk Valley.—Fultonville.—Fonda
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The earth all light and loveliness, in summer's golden hours,
Smiles, in her bridal vesture clad, and crown'd with festal flowers;