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hood; they haftily return'd back to the laid Bridge, 

 perceiving there was no noife of the Enemy. He 

 hearing feveral great Guns fire at the Town, concluded 

 that they were either affaulted, or that they had difcover'd 

 the Enemy: He having ordered that in cafe fuch mould 

 be, that they mould fire fome of their great Guns to give 

 him notice; he being a Stranger to the Country, concluded 

 the Enemy had by fome other way got to the Town: 

 whereupon he fent his Men to the Town, and himfelf 

 going to the River, near where the fight had been; ask'd 

 them 51 how they did? and what was become of the 

 Enemy? who inform'd him that the Enemy drew off in 

 lefs than an hour after he left them, and had not fired a 

 Gun at them fince. He told them he had been within 

 little more than a Gun fhot of the back of the Enemy, and 

 had been upon them had it not been for the thick brufhy 

 ground, &c. Now fome of his Men returning from the 

 Town gave him the account, that they went while 52 they 

 law the Colours Handing & Men walking about as not 

 molefted. He prefently ordered that all his Army mould 

 purfue the Enemy : But they told him that moft of them had 

 fpent their Ammunition, and that if the Enemy had en- 

 gaged them a little longer they might have come & knock'd 

 them on the head; and that fome of their Bullets were fo 

 unfizeable that fome of them were forc'd to make flugs 



51 That is, having fent the Indians troops, whom he had left near the origi- 

 who had been with him to the town, nal battle-field, 

 he went back and hailed his Englifh 52 "While — until." [Bailey.'] 

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