This is much the best authority for these proceedings.

The "Memoir," written by an old man who had squandered his energies and sunk into deserved obscurity, is tedious and magniloquent, and sometimes inaccurate.

Moreover, Dillon has not always chosen the extracts judiciously.

Clark's decidedly prolix speeches to the Indians are given with intolerable repetition.

They were well suited to the savages, drawing the causes of the quarrel between the British and Americans in phrases that could be understood by the Indian mind; but their inflated hyperbole is not now interesting.