Excerpt from With Rogers on the Frontier; A Story of 1756: With Four Illus, by F. J. Devitt The great conflict between England and France for supremacy upon the North Ameri can continent was drawing near its final stage. It had been waged for more than a century with varying fortunes, and over a vast extent Of terri tory. The sea-girt province of Acadia in the extreme east, and the rich valley of the Ohio in the far west had alike been the scene of bloody encounters, and now the combatants were com ing to close grips in that picturesque and beauti ful portion of New York State where the twin lakes Champlain and George lay embosomed amid forest-clad hills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.