dissenting, that the Lancaster County Historical Society— if not the State Association—should see to it that time and decay work no further ravages upon these most mem- orable sites, monuments of the early �history of Pennsylvania and the his- tory of printing and literature in the United States. They noted

manufacture to the Alpine mountaineers of Switzer- land. The Swiss colony that settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1721, came from the Canton of Basle or Basel. They were all mechanics and most of them gunsmiths. Prior to their advent the only firearms known in America were smooth-bore muskets and fowling

coach or on horseback, rather than to be "left in a swamp, upwards of a mile srom the place os their destination." They fur- ther show that the city and county of Lancaster then contributed for the year 1832, to the revenues os the Corn- �monwealth, $45,069.91—nearly a tenth of the whole revenue of the

century, just one hundred and six years ago, a group os ten per- sons, five os them young children, set out with a two-horse wagon to make their way, on soot, and with their lit- tle team, across the State of Pennsyl- vania, thus journeying srom May- town, Lancaster county, to Cross Creek, Washington

, social and even political leader of the adults. It was of this Parson Robert Smith that the writer, in his monograph on the "Scotch-Irish in Lancaster County," says: "How simple, for example, these entries in the Bible of a Londonderry immigrant, converted by Whitfield at fifteen: 'Dec. 27, 1749