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           ItoriginatedinthesimplicityoftheIndiancontests,inwhich,fromthenatureofthecombats,andthedensityoftheforests,fortresseswererare,andartillerynexttouseless.ThecarelessnessengenderedbytheseusagesdescendedeventothewaroftheRevolution,andlosttheStatestheimportantfortressofTiconderoga,openingawayforthearmyofBurgoyneintowhatwasthenthebosomofthecountry.Welookbackatthisignorance,orinfatuation,whicheveritmaybecalled,withwonder,knowingthattheneglectofaneminence,whosedifficulties,likethoseofMountDefiance,havebeensogreatlyexaggerated,would,atthepresenttime,provefataltothereputationoftheengineerwhohadplannedtheworksattheirbase,ortothatofthegeneralwhoselotitwastodefendthem.

           Thetourist,thevaletudinarian,ortheamateurofthebeautiesofnature,who,inthetrainofhisfour-in-hand,nowrollsthroughthesceneswehaveattemptedtodescribe,inquestofinformation,health,orpleasure,orfloatssteadilytowardshisobjectonthoseartificialwaterswhichhavesprungupundertheadministrationofastatesmanwhohasdaredtostakehispoliticalcharacteronthehazardousissue,isnottosupposethathisancestorstraversedthosehills,orstruggledwiththesamecurrentswithequalfacility.