fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

was the United States Senator from Louisiana and a stockholder of the New Orleans Canal and Banking Co. James B. McNair. (25) Frank A. Burr. (26) History of New Orleans, J. S. Kendall, 1922. (27) Godcharles. However A. H. Menelly, in the War Department, 1861, (New York, 1928), intimates that Cameron

, late Prisoner of War to the United States of AMERICA, of the Second Part, for and in consideration of the sum of Eighty Dollars, paid for his Liberation by the said Party of the first part, to the Use of Said States and for the further Consideration of the Con- dition hereafter mentioned, doth covenant

the heavier kind of farmer's or wagoner's horse is the Suffolk Punch. It strongly resembles the famous Chester Balls and the Conestoga horses of Pennsylvania." Frank Forester (1807-1858), in his Horse and Horsemanship of the United States, published by Geo. E. Woodward in 1871 (thirteen years after

. • THOMAS DICKEY was a clockmaker in Marietta, and later in Harris- burg. He is listed among the taxables in 1812-1814 (see Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 625). One of his clocks ran far afield; it was taken by wagon from Marietta to the Niagara frontier, New York State, in 1828, by

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

the United States. This lot was sent to St. Louis for the Indian trade. This order brought many others, for the rifles were found to be of such excellent quality that their fame soon spread, and orders began to pour in from almost every state and territory in the Union, especially from those of the

I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the