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and orchards; the houses were sometimes squalid 

 cabins, and sometimes roomy, comfortable build 

 ings. When he reached the newly built town he was 

 greeted by General Putnam, who invited Cutler to 

 share the marquee in which he lived ; and that after 

 noon he drank tea with another New England gen 

 eral, one of the original founders. 



The next three weeks he passed very comfortably 

 with his friends, taking part in the various social 

 entertainments, walking through the woods, and vis 

 iting one or two camps of friendly Indians with all 

 the curiosity of a pleasure-tourist. He greatly ad 

 mired the large cornfields, proof of the industry of 

 the settlers. Some of the cabins were already com 

 fortable ; and many families of women and children 

 had come out to join their husbands and fathers. 



The newly appointed Governor of the territory, 

 Arthur St. Clair, had reached the place in July, and 

 formally assumed his task of government. Both 

 Governor St. Clair and General Harmar were men 

 of the old Federalist school, utterly unlike the ordi 

 nary borderers; and even in the wilderness they 

 strove to keep a certain stateliness and formality in 

 their surroundings. They speedily grew to feel at 

 home with the New England leaders, who were gen 

 tlemen of much the same type as themselves, and 

 had but little more in common with the ordinary 

 frontier folk. Dr. Cutler frequently dined with one 

 or other of them. After dining with the Governor 

 at Fort Harmar, he pronounced it in his diary a 

 "genteel dinner"; and he dwelt on the grapes, the 



