The forest primeval.
1768. The chain of forts through the back woods.—Boston Gazette, Jan. 25.
1803. The philosophers said there was plenty of [mammoths] somewhere in the backwoods.—The Port Folio, iii. 97 (Phila.).
1807. The members from the back woods seem to be the deepest skilled and most active men in Congress.—Repertory (Boston), Dec. 15.
1834. Your Journal having even reached these backwoods.—Chambers’s Journal, iii. 40. (N.E.D.)
