. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. kie as clear as in Summer and the Air dry, cold,piercing and hungry. The reason for this cold is given from the great Lakes that are fedby the Fountains of Canada. The Winter before was as mild, scarce any Ice at all; whilethis for a few days Froze up our great River Delaware. From that Month to the Monthcalled June, we enjoyed a sweet Spring, no Gusts, but gentle showers, and a fine thence to this present Month, which endeth Summer (commonly speaking) we havehad extraordinary Heats, yet mitigated sometimes by
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. kie as clear as in Summer and the Air dry, cold,piercing and hungry. The reason for this cold is given from the great Lakes that are fedby the Fountains of Canada. The Winter before was as mild, scarce any Ice at all; whilethis for a few days Froze up our great River Delaware. From that Month to the Monthcalled June, we enjoyed a sweet Spring, no Gusts, but gentle showers, and a fine thence to this present Month, which endeth Summer (commonly speaking) we havehad extraordinary Heats, yet mitigated sometimes by cool Breezes. And whatever Mists,Fogs, or Vapors foul [there are in] the Heavens by Easterly or Southerly Winds, in twohours time are blown away by the North West; the one is always followed by the other:A Remedy that seems to have peculiar Providence in it to the Inhabitants. See also Pennsylvania Weather Records from 1644 to 1835, Penna. Mag. of History,vol. xv., p. 109; a valuable compilation of the variability of the winters in Pennsylvaniafor nearly two CHAPTER IITHE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD Indian Occupation—French and English Claims—Explorers and Traders—The Ohio Company—Celerons Expedition—Alarm of Pesnnyl-vania and Virginia Authorities—Washington Sent to Fort Le Bceuf—Military Measures—Fort at Forks of the Ohio—Wards Sur-render—:Beginning of French and Indian War—Fort Necessity—Braddocks Defeat—Forbess Expedition and Fall of Fort Duquesne—End of French Empire in America—Conspiracy of Pontiac—Reliefof Fort Pitt—Colonel Bouquet—Battle of Bushy Run—BouquetsExpedition against the Ohio Indians—Dunmores War—MixedCharacter of Settlers—Murder of Logans Family—Battle of PointPleasant. Land of the West!—where naught is old Or fading, but tradition hoary—Thy yet unwritten annals hold, Of many a daring deed, the story!Mans might of arm hath here been tried,And womans glorious strength of soul. The story of the settling
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