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| September 5, 1805 The arrival of Gen. Wilkinson at St. Louis On the 1st day of July 1805, his excellency, James Wilkinson, Governor of the Territory of Louisianna, arrived at this town, escorted by a troop of Calvary, composed of the citizens who, for that purpose, repaired to meet him six miles below the town. At the bridge near Louis, he was saluted by a body of Indians of different nations, of about 100 in number, who discharged their pieces several times in honour of the General as he passed by. On Main street, in front of his house, stood a body of 240 regular troops, with their officers, who, in due military order, saluted their General on his arrival; whilst from the Fort was heard the reiterated sound of the artillery. [Submitted by Nancy Piper] Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) November 27 1822 Page 3 M. Guy Duplantier, of Louisiana, has invented a machine for making bricks, which, it is said, will do as much work as thirty men. The same gentleman has invented a machine for piercing fence posts, by the aid of which, it is asserted, a man and a horse can pierce 1500 posts in the time which it takes to pierce 60 or 80 according to the ancient method. – Balt. Amer. [Submitted by Nancy Piper] Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) February 18, 1824 Page 2 Mammoth Trees We have now before us an account of a mammoth white oak, cut on Mr. Sager’s land in Virginia, the dimensions of which were as follows: “The stump measured 4 feet 10 inches in circumference. When dressed to haul home, 3 feet 3 inches at butt, 3 feet 2 inches at top and 25 feet long. It was ascertained to weight 6 tons.” Compared with the above, we have now growing in this parish, a sassafras which measure 13 feet in circumference, diminishing very little, to the height of about 15 feet. A sweet gum, which measures 17 feet in circumference, and diminishing little in size to the height of 25 feet – and a yellow poplar, measuring at the height of 6 feet from the ground 27 feet, and tapering gradually at least 30 feet, at which height we presume it would measure not less than 15 feet in circumference. The oak of every description grows to an extraordinary size, but we have never known any of the larger ones measured. – Louisiana Journal. [Submitted by Nancy Piper] |
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