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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in theannals of Indian wai-fare. Here, theaxe of the first settler under Penn awokethe echoes of the woods. At the hourthat the battle of Germantown was ra-ging around Chews house, here, at leastthree miles from that celebrated spot,the Hessians were endeavoring to crusha band of continentals, inferior in armsand discipline, but not in iron courage.After twelve bloody onsets, that pouredfrom the hill into the valley, the conti-nentals drove their enemies across therivei, at the ford, whose traces are nowobliterated by the rising of the waters,from Fairmount dam. This ford is sit-uated on the southern verge of Laurelhill, one of the most beautiful spots onthe globe, whose spires and monumentsare now visible from the mansion. It was here that William Penn lovedto wander, contemplating, either in hiswalks on shore, or in his excursions onthe river, the rise and progress of hismuch-beloved colony. In those wan-derings, perchance, he already saw—forhe was a deep thinker—his colony rise
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DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 231 into a state : that state one of the greatnations among thirty independent com-monwealths. The time id not distinctly markedwhen the original fabric, reared some-time in the commencement of the 18thcentury, was succeeded by the presentbeautiful mansion—the production of ithe princely taste and spirit of Pennsyl-vanias first goveinor, Thomas Mifflin. Yet it is a fact distinctly established, that some of the most important councilsheld by Washington during the Revolu- jtion, took place on this spot. The grass, spreading greenly before the porch, hasbeen pressed by the feet of a Frank-:lin, a Volney, a Priestley, a Jefferson, anAdams, engaged in careless converse, orphilosophical discussions. The ambassadors of kings have heremet the republican fathers of America.The mind wanders back, through thearcades of time, and beholds the richdisplay of contrasts which were exhib-ited in the olden time—the handsomeapparel of counts, dukes, nay, pri

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