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tions of the tories and British agents. The latter 

 unceasingly incited the Indians to ravage the fron- 

 tier with torch and scalping knife. They deliber- 

 ately made the deeds of the torturers and woman- 

 killers their own, and this they did with the appro- 

 bation of the British Government, and to its merited 

 and lasting shame. 



Yet by the end of 1779 the inrush of settlers to 

 the Holston regions had been so great that, as with 

 Kentucky, there was never any real danger after 

 this year that the whites would be driven from the 

 land by the red tribes whose hunting-ground it 

 once had been. 



