169.]--really came.

It was generally supposed that they were in part from Kentucky, and that Boon himself was among the number.

[Footnote: British historians to the present day repeat this.

Even Lecky, in his "History of England," speaks of the backwoodsmen as in part from Kentucky.

Having pointed out this trivial fault in Lecky's work, it would be ungracious not to allude to the general justice and impartiality of its accounts of these revolutionary campaigns--they are very much more trustworthy than Bancroft's, for instance.