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more dangerous) but saw not one. The commonest 

 wild animal is the Virginia deer ; the Grey Moose, very 

 similar to the European stag, has also been seen in 

 these woods, but is more numerous in Canada. The 

 black moose, or elk, is seen here but very rarely. 



Fort Pitt, formerly Fort du Quesne, lies in latitude 

 40 31' 44", about five degrees west of Philadelphia, 

 on a point of land where the Monongahela and the 

 Alleghany unite, both of them considerable streams, 

 and thence under the name of the Ohio proceed 

 through the western country to the Mississippi. After 

 this place was transferred in the war before the last to 

 England, and with it the whole immense tract lying 

 between the mountains and the Mississippi, in the year 

 1760 there was first settled near the Fort a little town, 

 called Pittsburg in honor of the then minister. Before 

 that time, under the French, only a few hunters and 

 Indian traders lived there. In the year 1763 the In- 

 dians began a bloody war against the British colonies, 

 and attacked this region among others ; the inhabitants, 

 still few in number, had to leave their houses and take 

 refuge in the fort, and the new town was given over 

 to the enemy by whom it was entirely destroyed. Two 

 years afterwards the place Pittsburg was re-estab- 

 lished, and more regularly than before, on the eastern 

 bank of the Monongahela some 300 yards from the 

 Fort ; and numbers at this time perhaps 60 wooden 

 houses and cabins, in which live something more than 

 100 families, for by the outbreak of the last war the 

 growth of the place, beginning to be rapid, was hin- 

 dered. The first stone house was built this summer, 

 but soon many good buildings may be seen, because 

 the place reasonably expects to grow large and con- 



