Excerpt from Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time, Vol. 2 of 2: Being a Collection of Memories, Anecdotes, and Incidents of the City and Its Inhabitants, and of the Earliest Settlements of the Inland Part of Pennsylvania From the Day of the Founders As our desires conspire with our feelings in wishing to promote and excite a love of the study of the past, we purpose herein to add a few of such articles as have most ably sustained the arguments which we wish to enforce - viz: Walter Scott had early habits of antiquarian study. He dwelt with fondness on the rude figures of the olden time. Blackwood's Magazine says that anecdotes of men and things will have a charm as long as man has curiosity. Hudibras (says Dr. Johnson) rs one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast, [mark the reason, ] as the images which it exhibits are domestic, the sentiments unborrowed and unexpected, and the strain of diction original and peculiar. 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.