[Footnote: Journal and Letters of Colonel John May; one of the many valuable historical publications of Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati.

VOL III--18] Contrasts with Travels of Early Explorers.
Such a trip as either of these was a mere holiday picnic.

It offers as striking a contrast as well could be offered to the wild and lonely journeyings of the stark wilderness-hunters and Indian fighters, who first went west of the mountains.

General Rufus Putnam and his associates did a deed the consequences of which were of vital importance.

They showed that they possessed the highest attributes of good citizenship--resolution and sagacity, stern morality, and the capacity to govern others as well as themselves.