. Miners and those skilled in warfare were unneces- sary; barter was the ostensible object of these voyages. If you please, con- sider the products procurable in this wonderful land—gold, silver, ivory, peacocks, apes and rare and beautiful wood, such as was not indigenous to the Orient. En passant, we are

. Pennsylvania seems to have been an asylum n for many tribes of Indians. Evcry tribe in the county was brought under the yoke of the Five Nations. The Susquehannocks, aided by troops from Maryland, fought a bloody battle near Turkey Hill in 1676 with the Northern Confederacy and defeated them, but later became