"We are not unmindful, in what we have thus said, of the great use of that loyal element which Joseph Galloway made in his very lawyer-like publications; but we have also borne in mind, that those publications were made for personal and partisan purposes ; and that, like his earlier associates in duplicity and treachery, he was capable of resorting to unsavory means for the accomplishment of any given end in which he was personally interested, justifying the employment of those means by the character of the proposed end, and boldly and unreservedly doing evil in order that what he was pleased to regard as good might, therefrom, be secured.

" accounts to be collected from the inhabitants, who " are entirely ignorant of military description.'' 3 Indeed, during that period, because of the character of the country, in its advantages for defensive operations, and because of his great disappointment, in his failure to receive the support, in arms, from those who were disaffected, which he had been led to expect, General Howe, also, became dispirited and disheartened, even to the extent of losing confidence in his own abilities and in those of his immense and well-officered and well-disciplined command to make any further progress, during that Campaign, nor until the arrival of heavy reinforcements, during the ensuing Winter and Spring.* General Howe had

8 General Howe's Speech before a Committee of the House of Commons, April 29, 1779.

In his examination before a Committee of the House of Commons, on the sixth of May, 1779, the Earl of Cornwallis testified that " the knowledge of the country of America, for military purposes, was extremely "difficult to be obtained from the inhabitants ;*' that "the country, in " general, is so covered with wood and so favorable to ambuscades that, "certainly, it was very difficult to obtain a knowledge of it by recon- " noitering ; " and that he " never saw a stronger country or one better "calculated for the defensive." In another portion of his testimony, the Earl stated, " I can only Hay that it is a very strong country, very " rugged, very billy, and very woody ;" and that, although, "by no means "equally so," his former description was "applicable, in some degree, "to all." General Gray, befure the same Committee and on the same day, testified that "the inhabitantsofthe country, in general, were so very much " against us that they deserted the country wherever we came ; and "could get no intelligence that we could possibly depend on;" tha, "that part of America where I have been, is the strongest country I ever " was in It is every where hilly and covered with wood, intersected by " ravines, creeks, and marshy grounds ; and every quarter of a mile, is " a post fitted for ambuscades.