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ley, a commissioner for examining the navigation of 

 the Susquehanna River, and subsequently, with Ben- 

 jamin Rittenhouse, to examine the Schuylkill River. 

 On the 27th of June, 1791, he wrote to Governor Mif- 

 flin that he was at New Town with Colonel Timothy 

 Pickering to meet the Oneida and Onondaga Indians. 

 They were on their way to Painted Post, where the 

 meeting was to be held. In August of the same year, 

 he wrote a long letter from Fort Franklin, where he 

 met Cornplanter and other chiefs on public business. 

 He at one time lived at Muncy, and assisted in making 

 an early map of Pennsylvania. On the 14th of April, 

 1795, he was appointed by Governor Mifflin one of the 

 first associate judges of Lycoming county, and resigned 

 February 16, 1798, on account of contemplated change 

 of residence. 



Major Adlum has been described as being a tall, stout, 

 muscular man, and very active in his movements. He 

 had blue eyes, light hair, a florid complexion, and a 

 smooth -shaven face. He was very benevolent, and 

 loved to aid the needy and unfortunate. The frontis- 

 piece portrait is reduced from an oil painting by Peel. 



The Rise of Commercial Viticulture 



Nicholas Longworth, at Cincinnati, received cuttings 

 of the Catawba from Adlum in 1825, and thereupon the 

 second era of viticulture, west of the Alleghenies, began. 

 The first attempt, at Vevay, New Harmony, Vincennes, 

 and other places, was beginning to feel insecure. A 

 better variety than the Cape grape, and a surer one 

 than the European kinds, was wanted. The Catawba 

 seemed to answer the demand. Longworth, who had 

 come from New Jersey, was the disseminator and pro- 



