firelocks, pistols, swords, and hangers, were common articles of
merchandise. Daniel Jones, at the sign of the hat and helmet, offers to
supply officers with scarlet broadcloth, gold-lace for hats and
waistcoats, cockades, and other military foppery, allowing credit until
the payrolls shall be made up. This advertisement gives us quite a
gorgeous idea of a provincial captain in full dress.

At the commencement of the campaign of 1759, the British general informs
the farmers of New England that a regular market will be established at
Lake George, whither they are invited to bring provisions and
refreshments of all sorts, for the use of the army. Hence, we may form a
singular picture of petty traffic, far away from any permanent
settlements, among the hills which border that romantic lake, with the
solemn woods overshadowing the scene. Carcasses of bullocks and fat
porkers are placed upright against the huge trunks of the trees; fowls
hang from the lower branches, bobbing against the heads of those beneath;
butter-firkins, great cheeses, and brown loaves of household bread, baked
in distant ovens, are collected under temporary shelters or pine-boughs,
with gingerbread, and pumpkin-pies, perhaps, and other toothsome
dainties. Barrels of cider and spruce-beer are running freely into the
wooden canteens of the soldiers. Imagine such a scene, beneath the dark
forest canopy, with here and there a few struggling sunbeams, to
dissipate the gloom. See the shrewd yeomen, haggling with their scarlet-
coated customers, abating somewhat in their prices, but still dealing at
monstrous profit; and then complete the picture with circumstances that
bespeak war and danger. A cannon shall be seen to belch its smoke from
among the trees, against some distant canoes on the lake; the traffickers
shall pause, and seem to hearken, at intervals, as if they heard the
rattle of musketry or the shout of Indians; a scouting-party shall be
driven in, with two or three faint and bloody men among them. And, in