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of both sexes, who were never sent empty away from the 

 hospitable quarters of the cheerful and liberal garrison. 



They possessed a tolerable museum, the only one then 

 in Pennsylvania, consisting of a great variety of foreign 

 and domestic natural and artificial curiosities, many of 

 the latter relating to the aborigines, as tomahawks, bows, 

 quivers and arrows, belts of wampum, wooden bowls, dish- 

 es, &c. &c. and paintings representing an Indian King 

 and Queen, &c. The predatory Hessians nuder General 

 Kniphausen quartered in the vicinity of rock fish Inn, 

 now known as the Falls tavern, plundered the place of 

 every thing, not secured before their ill omened arrival, 

 and pulled down and used part of the building for bar- 

 racks, leaving a mere wreck for the flames. 



The compiler of the present historic sketch, might 

 with propriety here close the prolix account of the pro- 

 ceedings of this long lived prosperous Institution. It may 

 however afford some relief to the tiresome and unavoida- 

 ble uniformity of detail in the relation of facts from minu- 

 ted and documentary evidence, for the general informa- 

 tion of the reader and of present and future members, to 

 advert briefly to some unrecorded but well defined and all 

 essential usages, a rigid adherence to which, has preserved 

 and will continue to preserve it from degeneracy or disso- 

 lution. 



Admission to the honor of membership, is by no means 

 easy of accomplishment. Candidates are very soon pro- 

 posed to fill vacancies occasionally occurring, from the 



