one which had partly fallen, lodged in the branches of the other two, 

 forming a bower that became a favorite resting-place for the red men. 

 The trees were appreciated and preserved by Captain Reuben Per- 

 kins, first white settler of the region. When he obtained the patent 

 for the site in March, 1810, he built his home beside the cluster of 

 pines. 



COAQUANNOCK 



When William Perm founded his City of Philadelphia, on the 

 bank of the Delaware, he chanced upon a place already noted for its 

 trees. 



Before the coming of the white men, perhaps centuries earlier, 

 the Indians had called the spot Coaquannock, "The place of tall 

 pines," distinguishing it by the beauty of these rugged evergreens in 

 a region thickly grown with forest trees of various sorts. "The woods 

 of oak, hickory and firs covering both shores made a fine appearance,'' 

 wrote Peter Kalm, the Swedish botanist, more than half a century 

 later, describing his voyage up the Delaware, even long after its rich 

 woodland had been thinned by the settler's axe. 



John Watson, the city's chronicler, tells us that in 1682, the year 

 of Penn's treaty with the Indians, Philadelphia had "a high and dry 

 bank, next to the water, with a shore ornamented with a fine view of 

 pine trees growing upon it." He adds that, as the ship "Shields from 

 Hull" sailed up the river, a few years earlier, its masts became en- 

 tangled with the branches of overhanging trees, and one of the 

 passengers exclaimed, "What a fine place for a town!" 



THE DELANCEY PINE 



The Delancey Pine, one hundred and fifty feet in height, which 

 stood within the boundaries of New York City's Zoological Park, 

 numbered its years at three hundred and sixty, when it was felled in 

 1912. More than a century previous it had shaded the home of the 

 Royalist, Colonel James Delancey, of the Westchester Light Horse, 

 High Sheriff from 1770 to 1777. * 



THE OLD PINE OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 



The "Old Pine" of Dartmouth College at Hanover, N. H., 

 dated back at least as far as 1783. It has been endeared to the alumni 

 as the centre of class-day exercises and other celebrations (one of 

 which was the tarring and feathering of a man who was charged 

 with crime,) during the greater part of a century. General Scott's 

 nomination was marked by a cannon salute from under its branches, 

 but as Professor Hubbard's house was struck by a stone, mischiev- 

 ously smuggled into the cannon, festivities ended abruptly. 



There was a tradition, which proved to be unfounded, however, 

 that in the early days, three Indian students stood around the old tree, 

 singing in farewell to one another, "When shall we three meet again?" 



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