out the entrails of the wolf." Surely there were Amazons in those early Cones- toga days! �A picture of the dangers and hard- ships of our forefathers here at home is given in the following item_ from the Gazette of May 11, 1731: "We hear from the county of Lan- caster that on the 10th of February

cabins surrounded by palisades,neith- er are there any cannon in view, nor does the picture show that it is lo- cated on a high mountain, but rather on a level plain, and, strange to say, with all that some of our more recent historians have tried hard to place the location of this fort on a high hilt in

exact site has been identified as located near or on the top of what is now called Spanish Hill, in Athen township, Bradford county, Pa., about five or stx miles north of Tioga Point, the junction of the Tioga and Susquehanna rivers."— Chas. A. Hanna's Wilderness Trail, Vol. 1, p. 31. �getting there

county was formed, "Cow Pas- ture Manor," of 3,063 acres, was set aside for them, in 1763, and two years later, in 1765, "Tulpehocken Manor" of 7,510 acres, was granted to Rich- ard Penn. Volume 4, Penn. Archives, 3d series, pp. 3, 4 and 5. In consideration of the fact that it was always "a red rose

feeling of fear and distrust which the white inhab- itants held against the uncivilized and treacherous Redskins. The building of the frontier forts and blockhouses by the Government, which also maintained a number of provincial troops, and the forming of ranging companies in the most thick- ly populated

Protestant groups, and started, in all good faith and conscience— with little or no thought of remuneration—a "Holy Experiment," as he called it, in governmental affairs. So here in Penn's Woods began one of the first Experiments in religious liberty and democratic form of government. The laws he promulgated