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Title: Wyoming : its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Peck, George, 1797-1876
Subjects: Wyoming Massacre, 1778 Wyoming Valley (Pa.) -- History
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hey find any of you lying upon theground, which they will be sure to visit in a few hours,you will lose your lives. He rode from company tocompany, repeating the same caution with the greatestearnestness. His description of the cannonading of the Britishworks at Yorktown was most thrilling. For four-teen days and nights, said the orator, there was onecontinual thunder and blaze. At night it was so lightthat you could see to pick up a pin. A white flag wasraised from the British breastworks, and the firingceased. It seemed as though the wheels of nature 342 WYOMING. stood still; the silence was redly distressing. Corn-wallis proposed to leave the ground with the honorsof war, with colors flying, and to embark his army onthe Enghsh ships in the nearest harbor. No, wasthe answer, and the parley closed. Now, said Wash-ington, give it to them hotter than ever. And, sureenough, the storm of the battle raged more terriblythan ever. They soon came to terms, and the heartof the war was broken.
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BENJAMIN BIDLACK. 343 The illustration is a tnithfiil representation of theEev. Benjamin Bidlack in his preaching attitude in aprivate house, behind an old-fashioned chair. Thesketch was executed bj the Eev. Marmaduke Pearce,it is supposed, after hearing the old patriarch preach afuneral sermon in his own neighborhood. 844 WYOMING. XIV.A VIEW FROM Campbells ledge, contributed by REV. L. W. peck. At the head of Wyoming Yalley is CampbellsLedge. The Susquehanna comes in from the north-west, and the Lackawanna winds around the base ofthe mountain from the northeast to mingle with thelarger and bolder river. The mountain whose basethey thus lave, and separate from the valley, is crownedby Campbells Ledge. Having a few hours at Pitts-ton, I cast my eye wishfully over at the mountain, adistance of about two miles, and resolved to make theascent. I was alone. My way led over the canal bridge,over the viaduct, and across the meadows to the mount-ain. I had just entered the wood and begun the

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