Of Peter Horry we have several amusing anecdotes, some of which we gather from himself.

It is upon the authority of his MS.

memoir that we depend for several matters of interest in this volume.

This memoir, written in the old age of the author, and while he suffered from infirmities of age and health, is a crude but not uninteresting narrative of events in his own life, and of the war.

The colonel confesses himself very frankly.