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did not give them courage or activity to go over after us. We were not ready for so great a mercy as victory and deliverance; if we had been, God would have found out a way for the English to have passed this river, as well as for the Indians with their Squaws and children, and all their luggage. O that my people had hearkened unto me, and Iʃrael had walked in my ways, I ʃhould ʃoon have ʃubdued their enemies, and turned my hand againʃt their adverʃaries. Psal. 81. 13, 14.



The ʃixth Remove.

ON Monday (as I said) they set their wigwams on fire, and went away. It was a cold morning, and before us there was a great brook with ice on it: Some waded through it up to the knees and higher, but others went till they