from, of 1808, terms the stream either "the Conestoga" or "river Conestoga." The Lancaster city and county poets have contributed their share, in a literary way, to the romantic and attractive charms of the Conestoga as a river, especially in the foreground at Indian Rock and Media Hill. These authors

houses remain- ing throughout the county. The oldest native stone structure yet standing is the Christian Herr dwelling, between Willow Street and Beaver Valley pike, not far from Big Spring and the Mennonite graveyard. It was built in 1719. A great wide chimney, with open fire-place, strengthens its

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

as found by me in central Lancaster county, have some of the shapes and general contour of such implements when gathered from old caves of Europe and primitive parts of Africa and Australia. Flint cutters are common in many lands in both hemispheres, reaching back to the earliest life of man. �As a