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Title: The passenger pigeon in Pennsylvania, its remarkable history, habits and extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone state
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: French, John C., 1858-
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Altoona, Pa., Altoona tribune company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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d even was the flight. EvenMarmaduke forgot the morality of Leather Stockingas it approached, and, in common with the rest,brought his musket to a poise. 134 THE PASSENGER PIG-EON IN PENNSYLVANIA Fire! cried the Sheriff, clapping a coal to thepriming of the cannon. As half of Benjamins chargeescaped through the touch-hole, the whole volley ofthe musketry preceded the report of the swivel. Onreceiving this united discharge of small-arms, the frontof the flock darted upwards, while at the same instantmyriads of those in the rear rushed with amazingrapidity into their places, so that when the column ofwhite smoke gushed from the mouth of the cannon,an accumulated mass of objects was gliding over itspoint of direction. The roar of the gun echoed alongthe mountains, and died away to the north, like distantthunder, while the whole flock of alarmed birdsseemed, for a moment, thrown into one disorderlyand agitated mass. (Then they collected the deadbirds and everybody joined in the feasting.)
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CHAPTER XX THE BINGHAM ESTATE Story of the Original Owners of Large Tracts of Land in Potter and Adjoining Counties. Written by M. J. Colcord, Editor, 1916(From the Potter County Journal) WHOEVER has had to deal with land titles inPotter county has surely become familiar withthe name of Bingham, as the title to most of the landis traced back to the Bingham Estate in northernand western Potter. No doubt many who own suchland today have little knowledge of the original ownersof what was mostly a dense forest but little over a hun-dred years ago. Mr. A. B. Mann, whose knowledge of early titles isprobably as good as, any man in the County, has anexemplification of some deeds made in 1796 for 249,000acres in what was then Lycoming county, from WilliamBingham to parties who finally conveyed to John Keat-ing and others, trustees, of which grantees, one wasJohn S. Roulet (notice the spelling) after whom Rou-let township was named. So it seems that most ofPotter county landtitles trace back to

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