. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . THE , DFSCRIPTION AlHAV. PENNSYLVANIA IN 1768 21 the reader knows are all within a few blocks of the Dela-ware river. Other considerable places in this province, he con-tinues, are, first, Lancaster, about sixty or seventy milesfrom Philadelphia, on the road to Fort Du Quesne orPittsburg, which [Lancaster] is near as large as the cityof New York:^ and about the same distance from Lan-caster, on the same road is Carlisle, and about twenty ortwenty-five miles beyond it, is Shippesburg [S
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . THE , DFSCRIPTION AlHAV. PENNSYLVANIA IN 1768 21 the reader knows are all within a few blocks of the Dela-ware river. Other considerable places in this province, he con-tinues, are, first, Lancaster, about sixty or seventy milesfrom Philadelphia, on the road to Fort Du Quesne orPittsburg, which [Lancaster] is near as large as the cityof New York:^ and about the same distance from Lan-caster, on the same road is Carlisle, and about twenty ortwenty-five miles beyond it, is Shippesburg [Shippens-burg]; the country between Philadelphia and Pittsburg,which are three hundred miles asunder, being pretty wellsettled for two hundred miles from the former, the landbeing uniformly good. The number of inhabitants in thewhole province of Pennsylvania are upwards of three hun-dred and fifty thousand. From his excellent summary of the conditions of thewestern wilderness and their tribes, only the following inregard to the Ohio Valley can be quoted: The RiverOhio rises in several branches; one of which is nearPresque Isle, o
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