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The Last of the Mohicans

around which and its sister fountains, within fifty years,
the wealth, beauty and talents of a hemisphere were to
assemble in throngs, in pursuit of health and pleasure.
Then Hawkeye announced his determination to proceed.

The sisters resumed their saddles; Duncan and David
grapsed their rifles, and followed on footsteps; the scout
leading the advance, and the Mohicans bringing up the
rear. The whole party moved swiftly through the narrow
path, toward the north, leaving the healing waters to
mingle unheeded with the adjacent brooks and the bodies
of the dead to fester on the neighboring mount, without
the rites of sepulture; a fate but too common to the
warriors of the woods to excite either commiseration or
comment.
* The scene of the foregoing incidents is on the spot
where the village of Ballston now stands; one of the two
principal watering places of America.

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