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waves of verdure. To the sick, the wearied, or 

 the sated spirit, nature opens a theatre of boundless 

 life, and holds forth a cup brimming with redundant 

 pleasure. In the other joys of existence, fear is 

 balanced against hope, and satiety against delight ; 

 but here one may fearlessly drink, gaining, with 

 every draught, new vigor and a heightened zest, 

 and finding no dregs of bitterness at the bottom. 



Having accomplished its work, the army left 

 the Muskingum, and, retracing its former course, 

 arrived at Fort Pitt on the twenty-eighth of No- 

 vember. The recovered captives were sent to their 

 respective homes in Pennsylvania or Virginia ; and 

 the provincial troops disbanded, not without warm 

 praises for the hardihood and steadiness with which 

 they had met the difficulties of the campaign. The 

 happy issue of the expedition spread joy through- 

 out the country. At the next session of the Penn- 

 sylvania Assembly, one of its first acts was to pass 

 a vote of thanks to Colonel Bouquet, expressing in 

 earnest terms its sense of his services and per- 

 sonal merits, and conveying its acknowledgments 

 for the regard which he had constantly shown to 

 the civil rights of the inhabitants.^ The Assembly 

 of Virginia passed a similar vote ; and both houses 

 concurred in recommending Bouquet to the King 

 for promotion. 



Nevertheless, his position was far from being an 

 easy or a pleasant one. It may be remembered 

 that the desertion of his newly levied soldiers had 

 forced him to ask Colonel Lewis to raise for him 



1 See Appendix, F. 



