Chapter

1 1 |         distinctly seen from the little town of Morganton on the Catawba
2 1 |                  Shrewd citizens of the town, however, observed that
3 2 |                Morganton is but a small town, built upon strata of the
4 3 |             night with the mayor of the town, a particular friend of
5 4 |                at half-past nine by the town clock of Prairie-du-chien,
6 4 | Prairie-du-chien, two miles beyond that town was heard a tremendous noise
7 11|                 on horseback toward the town of Herly. Five miles outside
8 11|                  Five miles outside the town, he was riding through a
9 14|                drawn into the gulf.~The town of Fort Erie stands on the