Lake Ontario, as well as of the world-famed falls and rapids, and his figures on those points are still the accepted ones in all the books and maps. In 1790 he was appointed by the Government, in conjunction with the Frenchman, L'Enfant, to lay out the city of Washington. Andrew Ellicott did all the

seen through partisan spectacles and the natural tendency to exaggeration on the part of newspaper writers. But their tendency to relate all public oc- currences in their minutest details supplies the recorder of past events with an unfailing source of data whose value cannot easily be exaggerated. No

his post of duty during his entire official life, save dur- ing the last two terms of Court prior to his death, when his health began to fail. He was stricken with paralysis on �Monday, August 10, and died the fol- lowing Weanesday, August 12, 1874. He resided at No. 227 East Orange street, and was

days of import- ance as the head of slackwater navi- gation on the one rive --t our county. Stand there a moment and look. On your right are the sertile lands of Lampeter; on the left rises Wood- ward Hill, crowned with its silent "White City." It is a sair scene upon which to gaze, but to-day we deal

McDowell, and he launched his paper with the following announcement: "The first number of The Hive is offered to the ladies and gentlemen of Lancaster and its vicinity as a speci- men. The editor or some person au- thorized by him will call in the course of a few days on those subscribers who have not yet

in 1805 and it is sup- posed that he continued to teach until his death, in 1808. Matthew and Mat- thias are no doubt one and the same person, as the dates coincide. Inci- dentally with lessons, we'll quote an item somewhat foreign to the above but none the less important, for we dare not eliminate

not get two miles up it with our boat for rocks." But they went by :and four leagues, or twelve miles, from the bay along the river. Smith and his party were in search of "White's colony."8 He visited the Susquehannocks.(4) Ac- cording to the marks on Smith's map, he was not north of what is the Ma