What to see in America . the Revolution was fought nearChadds Ford on Brandywine Creek, not far from the Del-aware boundary, in September, 1777. Washington wasdefeated in this Battle of the Brandywine, and in consequencethe Americans lost Philadelphia. On the southern border of the state, a short distance eastof the Susquehanna, Robert Fulton, the inventor, wasborn at Little Britain in 1765. He went to school onlyenough to acquire the ability to read and write, and when hewas old enough he was apprenticed to a Philadelphia , on the Lehigh River, has a certain romanticinterest

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What to see in America . the Revolution was fought nearChadds Ford on Brandywine Creek, not far from the Del-aware boundary, in September, 1777. Washington wasdefeated in this Battle of the Brandywine, and in consequencethe Americans lost Philadelphia. On the southern border of the state, a short distance eastof the Susquehanna, Robert Fulton, the inventor, wasborn at Little Britain in 1765. He went to school onlyenough to acquire the ability to read and write, and when hewas old enough he was apprenticed to a Philadelphia , on the Lehigh River, has a certain romanticinterest because it was founded by the Moravians, which are said to constitute theoldest existing Protes-tant church. Theyestablished a missionthere in 1740, and thebig simple house ofworship that they builta few years later stillstands, serene andbeautiful. Somewhat farthernorth is an expansionof the SusquehannaValley, about twentymiles long and three tofive miles wide, known The Blue Juniata at Huntingdon aS the Valley of Wyo-. Pennsylvania 121

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