If exceptionally fine, and of valuable fur, they cost five hundred dollars in paper money, which had not at that time depreciated a quarter as much in outlying Kentucky as at the seat of government.

[Footnote: Marshall, p.

124.] As soon as the great snow-drifts began to melt, and thereby to produce freshets of unexampled height, the gaunt settlers struggled out to their clearings, glad to leave the forts.

They planted corn, and eagerly watched the growth of the crop; and those who hungered after oatmeal or wheaten bread planted other grains as well, and apple-seeds and peach-stones.

[Footnote: McAfee MSS.] Many New Settlers Arrive in the Spring.
As soon as the spring of 1780 opened, the immigrants began to arrive more numerously than ever.