. Down the eastern and up the Black . intended to express the woodiness of the surroundingcountry. The truth is, that the railroad company borrowed it,and by its borrowing, rescued from oblivion the memory of anowner of a fann close by. At the time of its application tothe station the trees that lined the railroad track were neither tallnor large of girth. In 1880, when McClune counted the annualring growths of a number of large oak trees then felled, hecould find none that exceeded one hundred and fifty. To-daynot a single giant of the forest remains to tell the storyof the Nanti
. Down the eastern and up the Black . intended to express the woodiness of the surroundingcountry. The truth is, that the railroad company borrowed it,and by its borrowing, rescued from oblivion the memory of anowner of a fann close by. At the time of its application tothe station the trees that lined the railroad track were neither tallnor large of girth. In 1880, when McClune counted the annualring growths of a number of large oak trees then felled, hecould find none that exceeded one hundred and fifty. To-daynot a single giant of the forest remains to tell the storyof the Nanticokes. According to McClunes views, at thetime this section of country was settled, the forests, while ex-tensive, were far from dense. By frequent fires, the Indiansthinned the timber and kept it thin; on the high ground, forgreater facility in pursuing deer, in the low ground and valleys,to enable them to hunt the buffalo. The tradition is, sayshe, that a wagon could be driven anywhere without difficultythrough the standing timber. [ 26 z o to. This is but tradition, however, and tradition, it must beborne in mind, is not always reliable. Some investigators havetaken issue with McClune, but all agree with him that afterthe retirement of the Indians, the growth of the timber herewas rapid, and about the period of the Revolutionary War, theforests were dense. Southward from Forrest station about two hundred yards,stands the first covered bridge over the Eastern Brandy\ most of us bridges are interesting objects, whether we areable to analyze out interest in them or not. For me such inter-est dates a long way back. Caius Julius Caesar! can I ever for-get the time when I first assisted in reconstructing a bridge overthe Rhine in accordance with directions set down by thee withsuch explicitness in thy Commentaries on the Gallic War ? To those who, like myself, have struggled with tigtuisesqitipedalia, or operated the fistuca, the bridge at Forrest presents no constructional
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