Identifier: mapmodelingingeo00malt (find matches)
Title: Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Maltby, Albert Elias, 1850-1924
Subjects: Block diagrams
Publisher: New York : E.L. Kellogg & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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s about the Delaware and the two branches of theOhio. In the eastern part of the state the great name of Pennovershadows the whole section, while Pitt is associated with allthe names and places of the western part. The central portion,afterwards so celebrated through the bloody struggle at Gettys-burg, has few associations with that earlier time ; the settlementof John Harris upon the Susquehanna marking the capital atHarrisburg. Commencing at the eastern part of the state, wehave the Swedes at Chester in 1638; Wm. Penn at Philadelphia,1682 ; Daniel Boone born in Berks Co., 1735; coal used as fuel,1768; John Harris at the Susquehanna, 1726. Then we may gowestward along the Mason and Dixon line, run out as a boundaryin 1763-7. This afterwards became the idixwows slave line. Aboveit we find Ft. Necessity; then the battlefield at Braddock, 1755 ;Ft. Duquesne, 1754; Ft. Venango and Ft. Le Boeuf northwardto Lake Erie. The little town of Kittanning localizes this period Historical Maps, 215
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2i6 . Epochs in History. for some of us who come from this old Indian village on the* large stream. And these old names, associated through theFrench and Indian war, we find illumined by that of Washington.(See Fig. lOO.) In the period of the Revolution the region between the Sus-quehanna and the Delaware comes into prominence. The nameof Washington overshadows all. We find Independence declaredat Philadelphia, 1776 ; Trenton, and the crossing of the Delaware,1776; Chadds Ford, Brandy wine, and Germantown, 1777; ValleyForge, 1777-8, with La Fayette and Steuben, the old drill master,so sorely needed. Pulaski, with his consecrated banner, risesfrom the old nunnery at Moravian Bethlehem, 1778, while thesame year sees Queen Esther sv/eep down with the Tories and herIndians to the massacre at Wyoming. Howe, the British general,keeps guard over Philadelphia, while the spirit of Franklin directs,even across the broad Atlantic, the actions of the congressas it flies from Philadelphia to Lanca

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