The medicine which the British had administered to the country they abandoned, had not been suffered to lose any of its bitterness.

As had been feared, the Tories had laid waste the farms and plantations.

The region through which Major Wemyss had passed, for seventy miles in length and fifteen in breadth, displayed one broad face of desolation.

It had been swept by sword and fire.

Havoc had exercised its most ingenious powers of destruction.