Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 12: An Illustrated Magazine for the People; From May, 1876, to Oct., 1876 Bancroft contemplates with pride the meet ing Of William Penn, surrounded by a few friends in the habiliments of peace, with the numerous delegation Of the Lenni' Lenape tribes. The Great Treaty was not, says he, for the purchase of lands, but was held for confirming what Penn had written and Markham covenanted its sublime pur pose was the recognition of the equal rights of humanity. 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.