. Down the eastern and up the Black . Hi:\ land rises more or less abruptly, and consists of a succession ofhills. A map made by John P. Baily about sixty years ago, t 162 W JO -ap (11. shows a fairly accurate topographical view of the face of thecountry between Jefferiss Bridge and Lenape, except that muchof the timber has disappeared. About a furlong below Shaws Bridge the Eastern and theWestern Brandywine unite and form a river. Seated on a log alittle above their junction, I ask myself, what has become ofthe water of the dashing little rivulet that splashed in my faceas I lay
. Down the eastern and up the Black . Hi:\ land rises more or less abruptly, and consists of a succession ofhills. A map made by John P. Baily about sixty years ago, t 162 W JO -ap (11. shows a fairly accurate topographical view of the face of thecountry between Jefferiss Bridge and Lenape, except that muchof the timber has disappeared. About a furlong below Shaws Bridge the Eastern and theWestern Brandywine unite and form a river. Seated on a log alittle above their junction, I ask myself, what has become ofthe water of the dashing little rivulet that splashed in my faceas I lay stretched out on the lonesome by-road in HoneybrookTownship, at the base of the Welsh Mountains? Some of it hasevaporated, some of it has stopped to refresh the drooping wildflowers that bent over it, some of it has ministered to wearytravelers and thirsty cattle, and what remained, after turningthe wheels of the old mills along its course, has doubtless longsince passed into the Delaware. Its song has changed, its prideis humbled. Meeting with other streams, it has lost its lusty fellow who rows his boat on Lenape Dam knowsnothing of its long and tedious journey—nothing of th
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