This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 Excerpt: ... fall in this part of the country K it remains on the ground through the winter. Roads are a late and expensive improvement in every country. Here the/' are excellently made by the hand of nature; arid, through the worst part of the year, permanently made. The climate of Pennsylvania is delightful during the months of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 Excerpt: ... fall in this part of the country K it remains on the ground through the winter. Roads are a late and expensive improvement in every country. Here the/' are excellently made by the hand of nature; arid, through the worst part of the year, permanently made. The climate of Pennsylvania is delightful during the months of October, November, and December; and in this: high high part of the country, where the variable winds of the Atlantic have no influence, the winters are, with little exception, clear, dry, and light. From Piott's, we wenc across Muncy Creek, to Whitaker's, a public-house near the bend of the western branch of the Susquehanna. Laqd about Muncy Creek, uncleared, sells at 40s. per acre, about two miles from the river. Muncy Creek is not navigable. It extends upwards thirty or forty miles from the river. W hi taker holds his premises as tenant. He clears land where he pleases belonging to his landlord (Waliis) paying one-third of the produce per annum rent; term seven years. The house is the landlord's, the tenant finding labour only in the building of it.. This is a log-house, about 36 feet by 20, fashed windows, carelessly finished within side, one story high, cost for labour 50!. The logs of his house were all raised and fixed in one day. One man at each end of every log, as it is raised, knotches it, while other logs are ready to be handed up. In new land, after grubbing and girdling, u e. taking up the underwood, and cutting through1 the bark of the larger trees in a circle all round the trunk; which prevents the leaves from growing next season, he, ploughs about 2 inches and a half deep, then across; then sows the seed and harrows it. Upon the average of his land, his j: rop of wheat is not above 12 bushels per acre; v, v'. ." i, v of os ...
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Poor. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardback bound in 3/4 leather with marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine and corners with gilt title on the spine. The outer hinges are cracked but holding and lower edges and lower corners have wear through with short tears in the leather at top and bottom of the spine. Interior hinges have been reinforced and the foreword has the quarter top missing. Book lacks the maps. An early review of American by a traveling Englishman. 240 pages.
