[Footnote: Va.

State Papers, p.

381.
Clark's letter of November 27, 1782.] Wonderful Growth of Kentucky.
At the beginning of 1783, when the news of peace was spread abroad, immigration began to flow to Kentucky down the Ohio, and over the Wilderness road, in a flood of which the volume dwarfed all former streams into rivulets.

Indian hostilities continued at intervals throughout this year, [Footnote: _Do_., p.522.Letter of Benjamin Logan, August 11, 1783.] but they were not of a serious nature.

Most of the tribes concluded at least a nominal peace, and liberated over two hundred white prisoners, though they retained nearly as many more.
[Footnote: _Pennsylvania Packet_, No.