. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. 506 ULMUS AMERICANA. â I| > I, tians,âtno same as if a man's body was to he divided into two parts. Taking up the parciunent, he then presented it to the sachem who wore the horn in his cliaplet, and desired him and the other sachems to preserve it carefully for three generations, that liieir
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. 506 ULMUS AMERICANA. â I| > I, tians,âtno same as if a man's body was to he divided into two parts. Taking up the parciunent, he then presented it to the sachem who wore the horn in his cliaplet, and desired him and the other sachems to preserve it carefully for three generations, that liieir chiidreti miglit know what had passed between them, when they were no longer living to repeat it. It is to be regretted that the speeches of the Indians on this memorable day, have not come down to us. It is only known that they solemnly pledged themselves, according to the manner of their country, to live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the sun and moon should endure. Thus ended this famous treaty of which more has been said in the way of praise, than of any other ever transmitted to ; To this may be added the concise eulogium of Voltaire, who pro- nounced it to be " the only treaty which was ratified without an oath, and the only one which was never ; The tree, under which the foregoing transaction took place, was long regarded by the Pennsylvanians with universal veneration. During the war of indepen- dence. General Simcoe, who commanded a British force at Kensington, when his soldiers were cutting down all the trees around them for fuel, placed a centinel under Penn's elm, to guard it from injury. In 1810, this tree was blown down in a gale of wind, when, on counting the annular rings, it proved to be tv/o hun- dred and eighty-tliree years of age, having been one hundred and fifty-five years old at the time the treaty was signed. Shortly after this accident occurred, a large portion of the tree was conveyed to the sea
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