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2, 9 8 "RAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA: 
stress king laid upon coming in uniform, fhr 
appeannce of the men is not very military, 
Numbes also of the officers of these volun¬ 
teer corps, and of the militia, are resigning 
every dar; and if a man has been a captain or 
a colonel but one day either in the one body 
or the oher, it seems to be an established rule 
that he b to have nominal rank the rest of his 
life. Adied to all, there are several officers of 
the old cmtinental army neither in the militia 
nor in thevolunleer corps, 
Wincheter stands one hundred miles to the 
north wardof Staunton, and is the largest town 
in the Unied States on the western side of the 
B1 ue Momtains. The houses are estimated 
at three hundred and fifty, and the inhabitants 
at two thousand. There are four churches 
in this towi, which, as well as the houses, are 
plainly bull The streets are regular, but 
very narroy. There is nothing particularly 
deserving oi attention in this place, nor indeed 
in any of tie other small tow ns which have 
been mentioed, none of them containing mor^ 
than seventy louses each. 
