1307. CLARK (George Rogers), Greatness of.—
I know the greatness of General
Clark's mind and am the more mortified at the
cause which obscures it. Had not this unhappily
taken place, there was nothing he might
not have hoped; could it be surmounted, his
lost ground might yet be recovered. No man
alive rated him higher than I did, and would
again, were he to become what I knew him.
We are made to hope he is writing an account
of his expeditions north of Ohio. They
will be valuable morsels of history, and will
justify to the world those who have told them
how great he was.—
To Harry Innes. Washington ed. iii, 217.
Ford ed., v, 295.
(Pa.,
1791)
