Letters From the West

Download or read book Letters From the West written by George W. Ogden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From the West: Comprising a Tour Through the Western Country, and a Residence of Two Summers in the States of Ohio and Kentucky; Originally Written in Letters to a Brother The same author remarks, that the seite of this Fort was included in one of the manors of the Penn family, and was sold by the proprietors, and is now laid out in house lots, as a part of the town of Pittsburgh, which was built in the year 1765. Ogden. Comment by Ed. Consult our volume iii, p. 342, for the source of this statement. Apparently Fort Fayette, for which see our volume iii, pp. 32 (note 345. Also Cuming's Tour, in our volume iv, pp. 244, 245. Ogden has overestimated its distance from the town. Ed. For the founding of Allegheny City, see Flint's Letters, in our volume ix, p. 84, note 37. A bridge was built across Allegheny River as early as 1819; see Neville B. Craig, History of Pittsburgh (pittsburgh, p. 288. Ed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.