"The General not only heard this Proposal with Pleasure, and communicated it to most of the Officers, but doubted if he had Power to execute it. Some of the Braggadocio _Virginians_, who last Year ran away so stoutly, began to clamor against the Quakers and the General; so we marched on; the General got as far as the Meadows, where, to hasten our March, he fortified and intrenched a Camp, and left the heavy Baggage, sick Men, and spare Provision _&c_, and to cover our Communication, he left Colonel _Dunbar_ with 800 Men. This place was the only one where regular Troops could make Use of their Discipline and Arms, and it is all open Ground, therefore the General made this Camp as a Place of Arms, where a Fortification being erected would supply the Army as they should want, and might receive, and lay up the Provisions in Safety, as they arrived from _Pennsylvania_; the General also said, that as this Place was on the West Side of the _Allegane_ Mountains, it preserved his Majesty's Rights against the _French_, who pretended that those Mountains bounded his Majesty's Dominions. Here we halted and refreshed ourselves bravely, by the Help of the _Pensilvania_ Provisions, and of Deer, wild Turkeys, and Game of several other Kinds brought in by the _Indians_, which though we should deem it bad enough in _England_, for there is not above one Deer in ten that is fat, yet here our former Wants made these delicious. "On the 4th of _July_ our _Indians_ were defeated in the Woods by the _French_ Parties; a few only was killed, but their chief Man was taken; the _French_ have treated them very kindly, and declare they intend no War against the _Indians_. The General is apprehensive this will make an ill Impression on them, therefore does not care to trust them any further; he has publickly said he will advance himself with 1200 Men, drive the Enemy out of the Woods, and invest _Fort Du Quesne_; he is resolved to be prepared for all Accidents, therefore leaves Colonel _Dunbar_ with a strong Party to make good this Camp. The Ground round the Camp is open, and the Situation so advantageous, that this Camp is defensible against all the Efforts the _French_ can make, if any Accident, should happen to the General; and he has declared, he has put it in this Condition, that his Majesty's Affairs may not suffer if he should miscarry.