. A history of Pennsylvania. es, the adoption of a quarantine system, and improve-ment in the hospitals. Farming and Manufacturing. — The history of politicalaffairs and of the incidents connected with Philadelphia hasclaimed most attention, but the State was progressing rapidly ^ While there he occupied what is known as the Morris House, which isin admirable preservation. It is now 5442 Germantown Avenue. 2 Of the 28,000 persons who were left after the exodus of those who couldget away, there were during the ten weeks of the visitation, between 4,000 and5,000 persons who died. AFTER THE REVOL
. A history of Pennsylvania. es, the adoption of a quarantine system, and improve-ment in the hospitals. Farming and Manufacturing. — The history of politicalaffairs and of the incidents connected with Philadelphia hasclaimed most attention, but the State was progressing rapidly ^ While there he occupied what is known as the Morris House, which isin admirable preservation. It is now 5442 Germantown Avenue. 2 Of the 28,000 persons who were left after the exodus of those who couldget away, there were during the ten weeks of the visitation, between 4,000 and5,000 persons who died. AFTER THE REVOLUTION 17Q in the country districts as well. Farming was profitable,and the German farmers were probabl\ the best in thewhole land. In the settled part of the country the popula-tion was industrious. Manufacturing in various parts ofthe State was increasing, and a beginning had been madein developing the natural resources, but no one \ct dreamedof the vast wealth that w^as later to be acquired 1)\ miningand manufacturing. r. Fergus ]\Ioorhead House. Indiana County Built by the first settlers of Indiana County, about 1778, upon the sitewhere he had built a log cabin in 1772, a few miles from the present townof Indiana Transportation Problems; the Whiskey Tax.—Means oftransportation were all the time becoming better for the east-ern farmers, and there was a steady and good market for theirgrain and produce. But the farmers west of the Alleghanieshad practically no market for their produce. Ihc vastregion west of the Ohio River was a wilderness. i8o HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA The only way in which the Scotch-Irish farmers of thewestern part of the State could market their grain at profit-able prices was to turn it into whiskey, for a barrel of whiskeycould be transported with much greater ease than the grainrequired to make the whiskey. So extensive was this tradethat whiskey, like tobacco in Virginia, was used as 1791 Congress, to raise funds, laid an excise, or, as wesh
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