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    This genealogical anecdote seemed to make some impression upon the
North-Briton, who bowed very low to the descendants of Llewellyn, and observed
that he himself had the honour of a scriptural nomination. The lady expressing a
desire of knowing his address, he said, he designed himself Lieutenant Obadiah
Lismahago; and, in order to assist her memory, he presented her with a slip of
paper inscribed with these three words, which she repeated with great emphasis,
declaring, it was one of the most noble and sonorous names she had ever heard.
He observed that Obadiah was an adventitious appellation, derived from his
greatgrandfather, who had been one of the original covenanters; but Lismahago
was the family surname, taken from a place in Scotland so called. He likewise
dropped some hints about the antiquity of his pedigree, adding, with a smile of
self-denial, Sed genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, vix ea nostra voco,
which quotation he explained in deference to the ladies; and Mrs. Tabitha did
not fail to compliment him on his modesty in waving the merit of his ancestry,
adding, that it was the less necessary to him, as he had such a considerable
fund of his own. She now began to glew herself to his favour with the grossest
adulation. - She expatiated upon the antiquity and virtues of the Scottish
nation, upon their valour, probity, learning, and politeness. - She even
descended to encomiums on his own personal address, his gallantry, good sense,
and erudition. - She appealed to her brother, whether the captain was not the
very image of our cousin governor Griffith - She discovered a surprising
eagerness to know the particulars of his life, and asked a thousand questions
concerning his atchievements in war; all which Mr. Lismahago answered with a
sort of jesuitical reserve, affecting a reluctance to satisfy her curiosity on a
subject that concerned his own exploits.
    By dint of her interrogations, however, we learned, that he and ensign
Murphy had made their escape from the French hospital at Montreal, and taken to
the woods, in hope of reaching some English settlement; but mistaking their
route, they fell in with a party of Miamis, who carried them away in captivity.
The intention of these Indians was to give one of them as an adopted son to a
venerable sachem, who had lost his own in the course of the war, and to
sacrifice the other according to the custom of the country. Murphy, as being the
younger and handsomer of the two, was designed to fill the place of the
deceased, not only as
