. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. (thus carry-ing the relation back to at least Revolu-tionary times) she went with her parentson a visit to relatives in AUentown and thatthen all the land through which they jour=neyed was covered with scrub-oak, whilelarge trees were to be seen only here andthere, far removed from one another. stand very close together; the dry soil ofthese hills does not give any superfluousnourishment. And this was confirmed bythe accounts of the inhabitants who saythey rarely find
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. (thus carry-ing the relation back to at least Revolu-tionary times) she went with her parentson a visit to relatives in AUentown and thatthen all the land through which they jour=neyed was covered with scrub-oak, whilelarge trees were to be seen only here andthere, far removed from one another. stand very close together; the dry soil ofthese hills does not give any superfluousnourishment. And this was confirmed bythe accounts of the inhabitants who saythey rarely find an oak more than six inchesthrough. Hence they are obliged to fetchtheir fence-rails 4-6 miles, split chestnutrails being used for this purpose, the oakrotting faster, especially if the bark is lefton. The physical geography and geology ofthe township has been studied and describedvariously from the time of these earHestrecorded observations of Doctor territory was included in the geologi-cal map (published 1858) of the First Geo-logical Survey of Pennsylvania, made byProf. H. D. Rogers in the years 1836 to. The Centennial Oak In his Travels in the Confederation(oublished at Erlangen in 1788) descriptiveof his journey through this valley in 1783,Dr. Johann David Schoepf, in narrating theincidents of his trip and recounting experi-ences and observations, tells a tale essential-ly the same. On pages 193-196 (Englishtranslation) one may read: The road from here [Allentown toReading] leads over the ridges of connect-ed hills which are counted a part of theafore-mentioned Dry Land. . Americais indeed the land of the oak. All the for-ests are largely oak, but the trees are no-where either large or strong. What wehave seen yesterday and to-day would becounted young wood, but this is hardlyprobable, because we observed no oldstumps. Besides, the thin trunks do not 1857. Dr. John P. Hiester published aGeological Map of Berks County in was copied from the Rogers s
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