. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. e township linesuccessively as Morgans and Trullingers lane, now Car-penter Street. South of the dividing line the trail wassuccessively known as Gorgas, Milners, Garseeds andKitchens lane. The course of the creek at this pointmakes a sharp turn and here comesnearest to Germantown. The dis-tance from Bebberstown, or theupper part of Germantown, to theWissahickon is but a short distance traversed by the partywas about one and one-half miles;it was a short journey for the sturdyGermans of that day. The objec-tive point of the party was
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. e township linesuccessively as Morgans and Trullingers lane, now Car-penter Street. South of the dividing line the trail wassuccessively known as Gorgas, Milners, Garseeds andKitchens lane. The course of the creek at this pointmakes a sharp turn and here comesnearest to Germantown. The dis-tance from Bebberstown, or theupper part of Germantown, to theWissahickon is but a short distance traversed by the partywas about one and one-half miles;it was a short journey for the sturdyGermans of that day. The objec-tive point of the party was a levelbank, or strip of land on the estate arms of canton Johannes Gumre, adjacent to the creek, where easy access could be had to the flowingwater. The ravine of the Wissahickon is a rugged one,with towering rocks upon either bank, making the shoreinaccessible, except in a few places. The strip of land in question is about two hundredyards north of Kitchens lane. There recession of therocky ravine forms a space large enough to accommodate. o2 The Pennsylvania-German Society. quite a respectable number of people. While the rocksare covered with evergreens, the alluvial soil on the bankhas fostered the growth of the catalpa and other deciduoustrees. In former days, at the time of the scene we arenow describing, when the country was as yet covered witha fine forest growth, a rivulet broke over the rocky wall inthe background and formed a picturesque waterfall as itleaped from rock to crag in its wild flight down to the bot-tom of the ravine. *« When the party reached the banks of the Wissahickonthe afternoon was already well advanced, so little time waslost. After a fervent invocation to the Throne of Graceand the reading of a passage from Luke xiv, the newlyconstituted elder entered the water through the thin ice,leading by the hand the first candidate. This was MartinUrner, a native of Alsace, who had been brought up inthe Reformed faith, and who, together with his two
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