For a long distance the bushes are shattered and broken.

It was rifle balls and musket balls that did it.

Indians are not usually good marksmen, and they shot high, cutting off twigs above the heads of the Mohawks and rangers." "Suppose we look at the opposing ridge and line of bushes where St.
Luc's warriors must have stationed themselves." They crossed the intervening space of sixty or seventy yards and found that the bushes there had not been cut up so much.
"The rangers and Mohawks are the better marksmen," said Tayoga.

"They aimed lower and probably hit the target much oftener.

At least they did not cut off so many twigs." He walked back into the open space between the two positions, his eye having been caught by something dark lying in a slight depression of the earth.