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the French, the Indians easily found places of 

 safety, by retirinj^ into the woods and swamps, 

 where the French army could not follow them-. 

 Nothing was to be found but a few of their old 

 sachems, who were super-annuuted and weary 

 of their lives, to gratify the fury of their ene- 

 rnies. The result however was favorable to 

 both parties. The French, exhausted with the 

 ex pence and fatigue of the campaign, and mor- 

 tified by the want of success, did not wish to 

 repeat the experiment of another expedition in 

 the Indian country. The Indians were not 

 pleased to see the war brought into the heart of 

 their own country, nor could they yet oppose a 

 large body of men armed and disciplined in the 

 European manner, with much prospect of suc- 

 cess. While both parties thus wished to put an 

 end to hostilities, it would not be difficult to 

 find reasons, ways, and means, to effect a recon- 

 ciliation. In this disposition of their minds, 

 they agreed to put an end to their wars ; and in 

 the year 1667, concluded a treaty of peacC) 

 which continued for several years. 



This was the first time that the French co- 

 lony had ever enjoyed a compleat peuce. Both 

 the English and the French immediately em- 

 braced the opportunity to conciliate the affec- 

 tions, and to cultivate a trade among the na- 

 tives ; and their interest lead them to urge it, 

 with much zeal and address. Af that time the 

 trade with the natives was attended with much 

 profit and advantage to all parties. The French 

 in Canada, and the English at Albany and Sche- 

 nectady, were as yet too remote from each oth- 

 er, and too few in numbers, to occabion any 



