The half that are relieved lie down by their arms, but are not suffered to leave their pickets.

'Tis evident that we are drawing very near to the enemy now.

This packet goes out with the General's to Colonel Dunbar's camp, who is thirty miles behind us; and will be carried thence to Frederick, and thence to my honoured mother's house at Castlewood, to whom I send my duty, with kindest remembrances, as to all friends there, and bow much love I need not say to my dearest brother from his affectionate--GEORGE E.WARRINGTON." The whole land was now lying parched and scorching in the July heat.

For ten days no news had come from the column advancing on the Ohio.

Their march, though it toiled but slowly through the painful forest, must bring them ere long up with the enemy; the troops, led by consummate captains, were accustomed now to the wilderness, and not afraid of surprise.