fur had been a leading article of barter and trade with the Indians for many years earlier and as the animals were easily caught they were soon exterminated. Beaver Creek and Beaver Meadow (now the Big Swamp) in Clay Township are doubtless names reminiscent of a very early period, for it is unlikely

remains,—a melancholy memorial to its departed fellows. It stands in the southwestern corner of Clarion Township on the road leading from Mechanicsville to Reidsburg. This venerable stack is in a fairly good state of preservation. All the other furnaces have disappeared. In most cases, the masonry of the

from Philadelphia, Lancaster shall be the place at which they shall meet. Sept. 18. After adjournment the president received a letter from Colonel Hamilton, one of General 'Washington's Aids, which intimated the necessity of Congress removing immediately from Philadelphia; Whereupon, the mem- bers left

the Conestoga Indians, of the visit of their dis- tinguished patron, William Penn, and of their ultimate destruction by the Paxton Boys. The details of this legend will presently be furnished by per- sons amply qualified, but the theme itself suggests a personal incident and a personal sentiment

natural reasons—as did a large tract of swampland in Clay Township—doubtless at an early date. Peter Bezallon and other traders rated the beaver as the prince of fur bearing animals. Beaver pelts, which these Frenchmen bartered from the Indians, were the chief factor in attracting the early traders, who