What to see in America . mahawk, and shriekeda wild song while she swept swiftly around the circle slayingher victims. Sixteen she killed, and four who attemptedflight were slain by her warriors. The great bowlder hasbeen known as the Bloody Rock ever since. The nextday the Indians passed up and down the entire valley,pillaging, burning, and slaughtering. Those of the peoplewho evaded the foe fled eastward through the wilderness, 122 What to See in America chiefly to Fort Penn, sixty miles distant, where Stroudsburgnow stands. In one party on the old Warriors Pathwere nearly one hundred women
What to see in America . mahawk, and shriekeda wild song while she swept swiftly around the circle slayingher victims. Sixteen she killed, and four who attemptedflight were slain by her warriors. The great bowlder hasbeen known as the Bloody Rock ever since. The nextday the Indians passed up and down the entire valley,pillaging, burning, and slaughtering. Those of the peoplewho evaded the foe fled eastward through the wilderness, 122 What to See in America chiefly to Fort Penn, sixty miles distant, where Stroudsburgnow stands. In one party on the old Warriors Pathwere nearly one hundred women and children with only asolitary man to aid them. The fugitives had no food exceptwhortleberries which they picked in the woodland. Manyperished, and the vast marshy plateau they crossed, which even yet is unre-I? i r claimed, is still called y ci the Shades of Death Swamp. This part of thestate is now one ofthe most notable coalmining districts inthe world, and halfthe coal used in theUnited States ismined in Pennsyl-It. Ice Flood on the Susquehanna vania. was one of Pennsylvanias blacksmiths who first succeeded in usinganthracite. In 1792, when a Philadelphia printer broughtto the city several wagon loads of the coal and offered togive it away in order to introduce it, he was nearly mobbedfor trying to impose on the people with a lot of black coal began to be used in the city the agents kept aspecimen fire burning all day long at 172 Arch Street thatpurchasers might see for themselves what an admirablefuel they were buying. The original fireplace in whichanthracite was first burned, in 1808, is preserved in an oldhouse on Washington Street in Wilkes-Barre. The routenorth from there to Scranton, by way of Pittston, is throughthe heart of the anthracite region and abounds in collieriesand the villages of foreign laborers. The larger mines withtheir series of galleries on different levels have miles and Pennsylvania 123 miles of shafts and tunnels. Before the coal i
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