The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.

这是北美殖民战争的一个独特之处：两军交战之前，必须先在荒野中跋涉历险。

A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England.

一片广袤而几乎无法穿越的森林，把法国和英国敌对省份的领地分隔开来。