Be it remembered that these instances are taken at random from among hundreds of others, extending over a series of years longer than the average life of a generation.
The Indians warred with the odds immeasurably in their favor.

The Ohio was the boundary between their remaining hunting-grounds and the lands where the whites had settled.

In Kentucky alone this frontier was already seventy miles in length.

[Footnote: Virginia State Papers, I., 437.

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