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Title: The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Bowen, Eli, b. 1824 Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources Railroads
Publisher: Philadelphia, Willis P. Hazard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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were scattered in every direction, whichremained a great portion of the ensuing summer. The deluge brokethe gorge below with a noise like that of contending thunderstorms,and houses, barns, stacks of hay and grain, cattle, sheep, and swine,were swept oif in the rushing torrent. A great scarcity of provisionsfollowed the flood, and the sufierings of the inhabitants were aggra-vated by the plunder and persecution of the Pennamite soldiers, quar-tered among them. Gov. Dickinson represented their sufierings tothe Legislature, with a recommendation for relief, but in vain. Thiswas known as the ice flood; another, less disastrous, which occurredih 1787, jvas called t\\Qpumplcin flood, from the fact that it strewed thelower valley of the Susquehanna with the pumpkins of the unfortu-nate Yankees. After the peace with Great Britain, and the danger from the Indi-ans having been, in a great measure, removed, the surviving inhab-itants returned to their possessions at Wyoming, and being joined by
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23 21 SETTLER S DIFFICULTIES ADJUSTED. Of!7 67 many others, their settlement again flourished, and the village wasrebuilt. They still refused, says Mr. Trego, to acknowledge the au-thority of Pennsylvania, or to be governed by her laws; and on theapplication of that State to Congress, a board of commissioners wasappointed to determine the dispute between Pennsylvania and Con-necticut concerning the jurisdiction of the territory in question, who,after a deliberation of five weeks, unanimously decided that the stateof Connecticut had no right to the land in controversy. But though

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