MDDM Ch. 67

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646.2 Mohawk fighters

http://www.crystalinks.com/mohawk2.html

646.7 Hugh Crawfford ? (cf. 600.13)

646.13 Great Warrior Path

http://www.greenepa.net/community/WarriorTrail/

http://www.wvtrails.com/images/npanhandlemap.gif

http://www.wvtrails.com/trails.cfm?func=getTrails&id=333

647.6 "*Socko Stoombray*" ?

648.21 the Mohawk Chiefs Hendricks, Daniel, and Peter, the Onondaga Chiefs
Tanadoras, Sachehaandicks, and Tondegho,-- the Warriors Nicholas, Thomas,
Abraham, Hananhereyowagh, John, Sawattiss, Jemmy, and John Sturgeon, the
Women Soceena and Hanna ?

Certainly an unusual and intriguing array of names!

649.14 "He thah' would hang, after all, his Dog ... "
       "He who would *hang his Dog*, ... " &c

Variants: "Give a dog a bad name and hang him."
          "As well hang a dog as give him a bad name."

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/d54ou/mf46.html

"The Liberal impulse is almost always to give a dog a bad name and hang him:
that is, to denounce the menaced proprietors as enemies of mankind, and ruin
them in a transport of virtuous indignation." (George Bernard Shaw, 'The
Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism', 1928)

Up until the 20th C. dog bites were often fatal. Notable outbreaks of rabies
occurred in France in the 13th C, in Spain in the 16th C, in Germany in the
17th C, and in France, Italy, Germany and England in the first half of the
18th C. An old European proverb says "He that would hang his dog gives out
first that he is mad"; hanging being an accepted way of getting rid of a
troublesome or rabid animal. This proverb means that anyone who is planning
to do something unpleasant thinks up some plausible reason for doing so
first.

"Give a dog a bad name and hang him" is first recorded in the early 18th C.,
perhaps as a direct result of a spate of rabies outbreaks then. Its meaning
is slightly different to the earlier proverb: if someone's reputation is
sullied he is as good as hanged because he will never regain his former
standing. (cf. "Fling enough mud and some will stick.")

Cf. also, perhaps, 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' by Noël Coward (1930s):

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/phil101/weekly/b_mad_dogs_lyrics

651.13 Laurel Hill

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/l-hill.htm

651.31 "Sky-Fishing" ?

653.13 "Charles's Wain"  wain n. a farm wagon or cart

654.1 "Esculents"  esculent n. any edible substance

655.12 gentle Alioth

http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/alioth.html

656.2 West of Cheat

The Cheat River
The Cheat is the largest undammed river in the East, draining a large
watershed and set in a spectacular, scenic canyon. Although this is coal
country and pollution from abandoned mines upstream detracts from water
quality, the remote, narrow canyon retains its wild beauty, and there is
abundant wildlife. 

http://www.rafting-whitewater.com/penn-wwrac.htm

http://www.cheat.org/index.html

656.9 oestral  oestrus n. a regularly occurring period of sexual receptivity
in most female mammals, except humans, during which ovulation occurs and
copulation can take place: i.e. "heat" [17th C. from Latin *oestrus* gadfly,
hence frenzy, from Greek *oistros*]

NB 654-5 Nicholas's tale of the giant Hemp plant, Dixon's enthusiasm to
sample it, the - apparently recreational - smoking of "Resin" joints, the
Indian "Enterprizers", conflicts between various factions, "arm'd
Convoy[s]", and so forth. (Cf., perhaps, the description of GW's hemp crop
and the scene at Mt Vernon)

Is the description of the "visit" to the land of the giant vegetables
actual, or someone's - perhaps the author's - stoner fantasy? (cf.
655.14-20, but also the specific location and recount provided at 656.2)

Significance of Dixon's comparison of Beet-"mining" and coal-mining, and the
questions around whether or not the Beet is sentient? (657)

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