material. Christopher Marshall, while living in Lancaster, makes this early reference in his diary, November 12, 1780: "It's said that the Susquehanna and Conestoga rivers through the long drought [are] so low that people may walk over them by stepping from stone to stone." While connected with the

EVOLUTION OF THE BICYCLE AND ITS HISTORY IN LANCASTER COUNTY* By D. B. LANDIS FROM the beginning of human experience man has been a per- sistent walker. Throughout the ages his locomotive travels were aided by further assistance from horses and camels. Then came the addition of chariots, carts and

stated that "written history affords an incomplete history of the past." Without it, however, archaeology would have to depend more upon actual possession of instruments as excavated and recovered from mounds and graves. This plan of procedure has been going on in Lancaster county and elsewhere in

Lancaster Magazine Clubs of the Nineties By D. B. LANDIS T HE topic of magazine clubs in this locality is a new one for his- torical observation and reference. Not one of the numerous papers in the last thirty odd years, presented before The Lan- caster County Historical Society, contains an