Excerpt from The History of Pennsylvania: From Its Discovery by Europeans to the Declaration of Independence, in 1776 From 1753, the knowledge of the history of the British empire in America, becomes necessary to a proper under standing of that ofeach colony. But whilst an outline ofthe former has been given, an effort has been made, perhaps not always successful, to resist the temptation to introduce more of it than was requisite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.