common. They had be- come much mixed with negroes, and, in the Nat. Turner insurrection, about 1833, were treated as such and driven off. Captain John Smith, in his History of Virginia, 1629, spells the name "Ac- cowmacke," and says "they use jave- lins, headed with bone, instead of stone, and dartfish

that proper persons may be appointed to view and lay out a road for public service, from the town of Lancaster, till it falls in with the high road in the county of Cnester, leading to the ferry of schuylkill, at High street, and that a review may be had of the said public road in the county of Chester

AN OLD DIARY (INTRODUCTORY.) The brief paper which is to follow this introduction consists of a series of extracts selected from a diary kept by Matthias Zahm, beginning in 1835, and ending in 1849. Although Mr. Zahm died thirty-two years ago, there are, no doubt, a number of persons present who