Ghost of the glacier and other tales . Copyright, 1900, Detroit Photographic Co advent of the whites, for here, at the foot of CampbellsLedge, one of the most striking inland promontories in theworld, they builded their village of Assernghny, using thetop of the precipice behind as the site for their beacon was the site of Fort Jenkins, erected by the hardy NewEnglanders in 1778. Directly across the river was FortOgden and the Pittston Stockades. Just below was LACKAWANNA RESORTS, Fort VVintermoot. Upon these forts the Indians of the SixNations, under the command of the British gene
Ghost of the glacier and other tales . Copyright, 1900, Detroit Photographic Co advent of the whites, for here, at the foot of CampbellsLedge, one of the most striking inland promontories in theworld, they builded their village of Assernghny, using thetop of the precipice behind as the site for their beacon was the site of Fort Jenkins, erected by the hardy NewEnglanders in 1778. Directly across the river was FortOgden and the Pittston Stockades. Just below was LACKAWANNA RESORTS, Fort VVintermoot. Upon these forts the Indians of the SixNations, under the command of the British general, JohnButler, descended from Tioga Point, further up the Susque-hanna, to begin the tragedy which has gone down into his-tory as the Wyoming massacre. The last vestige of the fortslong since disappeared ; but Monocacy Island, to whichescaping occupants of the forts swam to be murdered in cold. blood by their own brothers, still lifts its head above thewaters. Queen Esthers rock, upon which the infuriated Indianprincess had fourteen of the Americans murdered in retalia-tion for the death of her son in a recent engagement, is theobject of great curiosity, and the credulous believe that adark stain upon it comes from the blood of the slain. LACKAWANNA RESORTS. Here, also, was Sullivans rendezvous before entering uponhis campaign of devastation. Views from Campbells Ledge can not be surpassed inany land. Standing like a grim sentinel, which in the Indiandays it was, lifting its almost perpendicular banks hundredsof feet into the air, it overlooks three magnificent to the southward, now basking in the sunshine, nowhid in the shadows, now disappearing behind mountainledges, the Susquehanna glides like a glimmering the northwest it comes tumbling down through therocky pass in the towering hills. To the northeast stretchesaway the valley of the Lackawanna,
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