Ghost of the glacier and other tales . ONCE A PILLAR OF THE WORLD, PATHFINDER RIVER. Washington under Colonel Willett. This was in January,1783, and was perhaps the last military movement of theRevolution. It failed, owing to the extreme cold. For twelve years following the peace of 1783 Fort Onta-rio, though nominally part and parcel of American territory,remained under the British flag. Not until July, 1796, didthe English evacuate this American city. The causes of thisdelay are too long to be enumerated here. They formed thesubject of a long and irritating diplomatic correspon
Ghost of the glacier and other tales . ONCE A PILLAR OF THE WORLD, PATHFINDER RIVER. Washington under Colonel Willett. This was in January,1783, and was perhaps the last military movement of theRevolution. It failed, owing to the extreme cold. For twelve years following the peace of 1783 Fort Onta-rio, though nominally part and parcel of American territory,remained under the British flag. Not until July, 1796, didthe English evacuate this American city. The causes of thisdelay are too long to be enumerated here. They formed thesubject of a long and irritating diplomatic correspondenceand of much bickering at Paris and Versailles. Washington,in his last message to congress, speaks of this necessaryprocrastination in terms which leave no doubt that therewas much to be said on both sides. In the war of 1812 Oswego was captured by a Britishfleet of eight vessels from Kingston, carrying two hundred. and twenty guns and three thousand men, under Sir JamesYeo. The invaders landed and destroyed the was in May, 1814, and for twenty-five years thereafterthe fort lay in ruins. Congress ordered the restoration ofFort Ontario in 1839. It has been occupied almost contin-uously by American troops ever since. The fort occupies asightly eminence on the east bank, overlooking city andharbor. I Company, of the Seventh Infantry Regiment, underCaptain Howell, are the present occupants. Daily theymount guard over a scene now as peaceful as beautiful,but which for centuries was the center of a contest hav- LACKAWANNA RESORTS. ing for its stake the mastery of a continent; the Hbertiesand the destinies of a great nation — perhaps even all ofmankind. OSWEGO, NEW YORK. Fevv summer resorts have been so richly endowed bynature as Oswego, terminal of the Delaware, Lackawanna &Western on Lake Ontario. This city of 25,000 inhabitantsis beautifully located on both sides of the famo
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