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nate French emigrants who fled to America. 
The town contains about fifty log houses; 
and for the use of the inhabitants a consider¬ 
able tract of land has been purchased adjoin¬ 
ing to it, wich has been divided into farms. 
The French settled here seem,, however, to 
have no great inclination or ability to cultivate 
the earth; and the greater part of them have 
let their lands at a small yearly rent to Ame¬ 
ricans; and amuse themselves with driving 
deer; fishing; .and fowling; they live entirely 
to themselves; they hate the Americans; and 
the Americans in the neighbourhood hate; and 
accuse them of being an idle dissipated set. 
The manners of the two people are so very 
different; that it is impossible they should ever 
agree. 
Wilkesbarre; formerly Wyoming; is the chief 
town of Luzerne county. It is situated on a 
plain; bounded on one side by the Susquehan- 
nah, and on the other by a range of moun¬ 
tains; and contains about one hundred and 
fifty wooden dwelling houses; a church; court¬ 
house; and gaol. It was here that the dread¬ 
ful massacre was committed during the Ame¬ 
rican wai*; by the Indians, under the command 
of colonel Butler; which is recorded in most 
of the histories of the war; and which will for 
ever remain a blot on the English annals. Se¬ 
veral of the houses in which the unfortunate 
