Clayton's Rangers, or the Quaker Partisans: A Story of the American Revolution (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The one rugged feature of Which I spoke - and that is not visible at a distance which takes in the whole sweep of the landscape - is a rock Which stands upon the right bank of the river, about two or three hundred yards below the bridge over which the Strasburg road crosses it, and about two miles from the borough of West Chester, now one of the prettiest towns in East ern Pennsylvania, - though at the time of Which I am writing, consisting as it did of a single tavern, known then, and indeed ever since, With the exception of a year or two during Which it was occupied as a girls' board ing-school, as The Turk's Head, its beauty may be said to have been in an undeveloped and inchoate state. There may have been a blacksmith's shop and a coun try store, also; I presume those concomitants were not wanting; but, having no historical evidence thereof, and Wishing to be as exact as circumstances will admit of, I had rather not say positively.
This rock rises perpendicularly from the water's edge to the height of about forty or fifty feet, having near its southern extremity a mass of stone projecting some six or eight feet from the rough, craggy face, over the water, at perhaps three or four feet above the ordinary surface-level, and perfectly flat on the under side, thus forming a capital shade from sun or shelter from rain for that most patient class of men yclept anglers; albeit the stream at this day furnishes but little to reward their patience.
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