Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.