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Title: A history of Pennsylvania
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Allen C. (Allen Clapp), 1846-1920
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Publisher: Boston New York, : D. C. Heath
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and EngHsh must livein love as long as the sun gave light, and a belt of wampumwith figures of two men clasping hands was given to Penn.Such is an outline of the story which gave rise to the oft-quoted remark of Voltaire that it was the only treaty be-tween those natives and the Christians which was never swornto and never broken. The story has also been preserved inBenjamin Wests picture ofPenns Treaty with the Indians, ^ ^ The elm was blown down in 1810 and was found by the rings of growthto be 283 years old. A simple monument marks the site. 2 Wests representation is by no means accurate. He pictures Penn as aportly, middle-aged man, whereas, as has been seen, he was only thirty-eight,and athletic; and West makes his dress that of the style of seventy years later.The statue on the top of City Hall, T*hihideli)hia, represents Penn as he is sup-posed to have looked at the time of the treaty. The belt of wampum is in thelibrary of the Historical Society of PennsyKania at Philadelphia.
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