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Excerpt from A Pagan of the Alleghanies
There must have been much deemed unrivaled or to be desired along this barrier that has been fought for by several nations and many factions, and is yet so untamed and untamable; for the forests have still the freeness of the wilderness in them, as wild, if not so vast, as when the Ligonier Valley was the hunting-ground of the Indian confederacy; as wild as when Nemacolin, the Delaware, pushed through its jungles, leaving the trail for the English soldiers, the trail that for a century was called Nemacolin's Path; the one over which the man Washington rode to his first defeat - and his last. It was over this debatable range that he fought for the cross of St. George, and the enemy's standard bore the Bourbon lilies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
