and his cloying sweetnesses, missing the greater things which make his art, at times, more or less real. This, of course—this copying of the lesser traits of the great—happens in all ages. See how the disciples of Sargent can imitate his technique. The copied brown tone does not make a Rembrandt any

con- siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur- chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789

incidents in our local history. As matters of ac- curate record, they are fit to be pre- served in our annals and to be chron- icled with the transactions of the So- ciety. On page 20 of the "History," in describing the Gorsuch homestead and estate, it is stated that certain of the slaves attached thereto

third is that of Henry Robert Reed, his fath- er, dated 1816. Mr. Ford's portrait was painted in 1812, and is, therefore, one of the earliest of the artist's works. A very considerable cluster of Eich- holtz portraits and the relations of a notable Lancaster family have been traced to and through Mr

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family