Historical Easton In The Last Decade

Author : Uzal W. Condit
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333532277
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book The History of Easton, Penn'a From the Earliest Times to the Present, 1739 1885 (Classic Reprint) written by Uzal W. Condit and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Easton, Penn'a From the Earliest Times to the Present, 1739 1885 Before I739, when David Martin built his ferry house at the foot of Ferry street, the whole scene was covered with a growth of bushes. These beautiful rivers rolled along with their gurgling music under the forests overhanging their banks. There was little to disturb the profound quiet, which reigned supreme, except the sighing of the winds, the rustling storm, the singing of birds, the loud-crashing thunder, or the war dance, or the loud war-whoop of the savages. On Mount Lafayette, on the heights where South Easton stands, or on the banks of the Lehigh, could be seen the smoke curling through the tree tops from the fires of Indian camps; or one might have caught a glimpse of a eet of canoes descending the Delaware and Lehigh, filled with the dusky children of the forests. This was the garden of the Lenni Lenape, chosen for its beauty, * the convenience of its rivers, which afforded easy communication with the interior of the country, and as they came down either river they found a landing-place for their canoes on a long point extend ing far out toward the right bank of the Lehigh. This point has long since been washed away, though the name still remains - The Point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."