. American history:. red them, and pledged themselvesto live in love with William Penn and his children, aslong as the sun and moon should endure. ^The friend-ship thus created between the province and the Indianscontinued more than seventy years, and was never inter-rupted while the Quakers retained the control of the go-vernment. Of all the American colonies, the early his-tory of Pennsylvania alone is wholly exempt from scenesof savage warfare. The Quakers came without arms,and with no message but peace, and not a drop of theirblood was ever shed by an Indian. 9. ^A few months after Penns a
. American history:. red them, and pledged themselvesto live in love with William Penn and his children, aslong as the sun and moon should endure. ^The friend-ship thus created between the province and the Indianscontinued more than seventy years, and was never inter-rupted while the Quakers retained the control of the go-vernment. Of all the American colonies, the early his-tory of Pennsylvania alone is wholly exempt from scenesof savage warfare. The Quakers came without arms,and with no message but peace, and not a drop of theirblood was ever shed by an Indian. 9. ^A few months after Penns arrival, he selected aplace between the rivers Schuylkill* and Delaware, forthe capital of his province,—purchased the land of the Swedes, who had already erected achurch there, and having regulatedthe model of the future city by a map,named it Philadelphia,! or the city of S. Record ofthe treat!/. 5. PromUesoft/ielndians. 1. Happyeffects ofPenns pol-icy. 1683. 5. Foundingqf Philadel-phia. PHILADELPHIA AND on the Delaware ; and, though it has a separate gov-ernment of its own, it should be regarded as a partof the city. (See Map.) * The Schuylkill River, in the eastern part of Penn-sylvania, rises by three principal branches in Schuyl-kill County, and pursuing a course, enters Del-aware River five miles below Philadelphia. Vesselsof from 300 to 400 tons ascend it to the westernwharves of Philadelphia. (See Map.) t Philaihlpltia City, now the second in size andpopulation in the United States, is situated betweenthe Delaware and the Schuylkill Rivers, five milesabove their junction, and 120 miles, by the DelawareRiver, from the ocean. It is about eighty miles, in Part U.] PENNSYLVANIA. 249 Brotherly Love. The groves of chestnut, walnut, pine, which marked the site, were commemorated by the names given to the principal streets. At the end of ihes^ year the city numbered eighty dwellings, and at the 2- ^^/^/^end of two years it contained a population of
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