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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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fe; the portions of the water-soaked batca^tx; the gun-flints, bayonets, and mus-ket-barrels ; an ancient and elaborately-finished sword, with guard and lions-head hilt ofsolid silver; but, most of all, the peculiar amputating-knife—fix the site of Wilkinss dis-aster at the mouth of the picturesque Rocky River. A short distance westward, the lake has another storehouse of relics. Here, in 1764,on a narrow, exposed beach, Bradstreets expedition also was wrecked during an autumnstorm. Accounts of this disaster are given in Parkmans History, and other author-ities ; but the exact place is not specified, and here, again, the beach speaks for itself.Portions of the bateaux have been discovered, six-pound cannon-balls and a number ofmusket-balls, a stack of bayonets, entire and perfect musket-barrels, silver coins of 1717,and several antique silver spoons. Each violent storm adds to the relics, and the fisher-mans net brings them ashore, or comes up cut and drawn by something fixed in the
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Lumber-Boats, Sandusky, Ohio. 534 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. sandy bottom, probably the sharp corners of other bateattx. After the wreck, the pro-vincials, or American soldiers, under General Israel Putnam, were left to find their wayby land to Niagara, four hundred miles distant, through a wilderness crossed by riversand swamps, and filled with hostile Indians. The first steps of their way from the beachare marked by articles thrown down to lighten their burdens, A bayonet was recentlyfound fixed in the clay cliff, which had evidently been used by the retreating soldiers asa fixture by which they could draw themselves up to the top of the bank. At anotherpoint was a stack of bayonets piled against a tree, and a musket, which had stood as ithad been left a hundred years before, leaning against the crotch of a tree until the woodhad grown completely around it. The soldiers suffered severely, and many of them diedon the way. It was December before the last stragglers reached the gates of old

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