Excerpt from The Deerslayer, Vol. 1: A Tale
The incidents of this tale occurred between the years 1740 and 1745, when the settled portions of the colony of New York were confined to the four Atlantic counties, a narrow belt of country on each side of the Hudson, ex tending from its mouth to the falls near its head, and to a few advanced neighborhoods on the Mohawk and the Schoharie. Broad belts of the virgin wilderness not only reached the shores of the first river, but they even crossed it, stretching away into New England, and afford ing forest covers to the noiseless moccasin of the native warrior, as he trod the secret and bloody warpath. A bird's-eye view of the whole region of New York State, west of 'the Hudson River, must then have offered one vast expanse of woods, dotted by the glittering surfaces of lakes, and intersected by the waving lines of rivers.
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