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 have adopted special precautions to keep them from the tent, as they
jump about in the tall grass, appeasing their insectivorous appetites.
[Footnote A: Upon the Ohio and kindred rivers, the term "wharf" applies
to the river beach when graded and paved, ready for the reception of
steamers. Such a wharf must not be confounded with a lake or seaside
wharf, a staging projected into the water.] [Footnote B: It was in this
neighborhood, a mile or two above our camp, where the bottom is
narrower, that Capt. William Foreman and twenty other Virginia
militiamen were killed in an Indian ambuscade, Sept. 27, 1777. An
inscribed stone monument was erected on the spot in 1835, but we could
not find it.] CHAPTER VI. The Big Grave--Washington, and Round Bottom--A
lazy man's Paradise--Captina Creek--George Rogers Clark at Fish
Creek--Southe