part is now presented for the first time and the whole of it put in form to be of interest, if not of value. The recent destruction of the Columbia bridge prompted my writing a sketch of it, so that there might be a record made of its continuous history, and I will open this paper with that sketch

, and he was encouraged to undertake a second term. This also proving satisfactory, he had by this time become so thoroughly attached to the school and children that he re- solved to continue a teacher. Many methods were introduced for the improvement of his pupils and to place the school on a better

life, while menaced by a savage foe, all to escape from British persecution, intolerance and bigotry. When settled in their new homes, in the Octorara Valley, a common im- pulse seized them, the desire to facili- tate the opportunities for the educa- tion of their children. It was here the British laws