; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, III, 113, 426-427. See also, "Lancaster Penna., for Capital of the United States," Pa. Mag. of Hist. and Biog., XL, 358-361. 4 C . B. Trego, A Geography of Pennsylvania, p. 271. 5 Lewis Evans, in Gipson, Lewis Evans, p. 98. 6 Hazard, Register, II, 300-301; Gilpin, "Journal

. I'enns!lli•ania Gazette, May 17, 1773. :12 P. W. Bidwell and J. I. Falconer, History of Agriculture in the North- ern United States, 1620-1860, p. 78 (cited hereafter as: Bidwell and Falconer, HiRtory of Agriculture). 33 T. Pownall, A To71ographical Description of ... the Middle British Colonies ... in

Europe soon after the War of 1812. In the late 1830's or 1840's, the steam-powered sawmill appeared in Lancaster County." The lumber sawed from the Lancaster County forests was principally hardwoods. Conifers were scarce, but importations of white and yellow pine from the upper Susquehanna Valley

for its rifles, muskets, and pistols, the first of which are esteemed the best made in the United States. (Fortescue Cuming, 1807, in Thwaites, Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, IV, 31) The rifled gun has been an important formative influence in American history. It aided materially in the conquest of