is, in reality, a small atlas. lts title is altogether misleading, as one would naturally suppose it to be a biography of George Washington. It was published in con- nection with Chief Justice John Marshall's admirable life of the first President of the United States. Vols. 1, 2 and 3 of this great

LANCASTER. Printed for the Association. WILLIAM HAMILTON, Printer. 1814. On page three appears the "Preamble," which is as follows : "In times like the present, [during War of 1812 with Eng- land] when we behold our beloved and once flourishing country disgraced and degraded ; when we observe that our

students of local history. The following year, Washington became a member of the First Congress, which met in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, September 5th, 1774; the next April came the Battle of Lexington, followed by the appointment of Wash- ington to the leadership of the American army, and the long

: "Washington being President of the United States, could not receive a present from any foreign power. Consequently, the rug was sold. Judge Jasper Yeates, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, then living in Lan- caster, Pa., bought it and laid it on the parlor floor of his house (now occupied by The Inquirer