determined " the differ- ent Squares or Areas. On the lower right hand corner we find this: BREADTH of the STREETS. THE grand Avenues, and such Streets as lead immediately to public places, are from 130 to 160 feet wide, and may be conveniently divided into foot-ways, walks of trees, and a car- riage way

Creek, half a mile srom the Great Road, and about a mile srom Lancaster, opposite George Ross's Mill, is now repairing and likely to be ready for Business in a short Time; where People may depend upon having their Cloths carefully dressed according to Orders, in the several Branches of Business

AN EARLY ROAD PETITION. It is hardly necessary for me to say to this audience that the earliest roads used by the first settlers in this country were probably the paths trav- ersed by the Indians in going to and fro over the country, and that when real wagon roads were "laid out," as it was called

. Benton's mint- drops the only relief, and none in the market. �June 15—Began to dig on East Orange and Shippen streets to lay water pipes. July 3—Water was turned into the pipes on East Orange, Shippen and Lime streets. September 13—Frost in low places. 1838. March 29—Railroad bridge near Downingtown

Stephen Atkinson paid taxes, as may be seen by the assess- ment rolls, on land in Conestoga town- ship. (Ellis and Evans, p. 21). This seems to have been the first assess- ment. Taxes were paid by him in the same township in 1724-25, and on land in West Conestoga in 1720. A very wild, perilous tract it

execute all kinds of printing in a superior style of elegance on the shortest notice and on most moderate terms." An interesting sketch of this William Greear, by Samuel Evans, Esq., will be found in Vol. 9, p. 327, of the reports of this Society. After two years' existence proposals were issued for the

An Old Receipt Book. It is always interesting to make comparisons, and when you have a hundred years as a dividing line and you know what is on this end of the line, curiosity, such as the fisherman possesses under such circumstances, leads us to wonder about the other end. The old book in question