They were not sufficiently humbled, and it was resolved to march upon the "middle settlements".

To this task, that which had been performed was comparatively easy.

They were now to enter upon a different country, where the Indians were better prepared for them--nay, where they HAD prepared for them,--in all probability, to the neglect of the lower towns.

Toilsome and full of peril was this march.

Dismal and dense was the wilderness which they were now to penetrate.