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between them, which should have the honour 
of conducting her to the camp ; from words 
ihey came to blows, and blood was on the 
point of being’ drawn, when one of their chiefs, 
to setttle the matter without farther mischief, 
went up to Miss M^Crea, and killed her on 
the spot with a blow of his tomahawk. The 
object of contention being thus removed, the 
Indians returned quietly to the camp. The 
enormity of the crime, how ever, was too great 
not to attract public notice, and it turned the 
minds of every person against the Indians, 
who had not before w itnessed their ferocity on 
occasions equally shocking to humanity. The 
impolicy of employing such barbarians was 
now strongly reprobated, and in a short time 
•afterwards most of them were dismissed from 
our army. 
Fort Edward stands near the river. The 
town of the same name, is at the distance of 
one or two hundred yards from it, and con¬ 
tains about twenty houses. Thus far we had 
got on tolerably well; but from hence to 
Fort Anne, which was also dismantled prior 
to the late war, the road is most wretched, 
particularly over a long causeway between the 
two forts, formed originally for the transport¬ 
ing of cannon, the soil here being extremely 
moist and heavy. The causeway consists of 
large trees laid side by side transversely, some 
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