CHAPTER XV.
PARLEY TELLS ABOUT THE UNITED STATES.
The English settlements in America grew very rapidly into power and importance.

The French settlements also increased in extent and influence, and a rivalry between the French and English, fostered and nourished by the "_natural enmity_" which was said to subsist between the Gauls and the Britons, broke out at last in terrible warfare.

War is very frightful under any circumstances.

It looks very much like murder; and, even at the best of times, a battle-field reminds us of Cain and Abel.

Brother slaughters brother, and the conqueror rejoices and describes his sanguinary work as "a glorious victory." In the war between the English and French settlers in America, a new and atrocious feature was introduced.