The Presbyterian Magazine Volume 5 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Islands, and Japan. Mr. Taylor has certainly imparted a strong interest to the regions visited, and to the Saracen race, which is thes ubject of his observations. The journey from Aleppo to Constantinople, through the heart of Asia Minor, is oue rarely taken by tourists, and forms a number of chapters which the reader will highly appreciate. The chapter entitled " The Visions of Hasheesh," contains writing of extraordinary power, quite worthy of the extraordinary visions produced by the extraordinary " Hasheesh." The volume is exceedingly entertaining and instructive, and will, we are quite sure, be extensively circulated in the community. Last Remnants Of The DelaWares In Nebraska.?In the wilds of the far West, the last remnants of the once powerful Diiawares are fast dwindling away. Ouce the lords of the soil in Eastern Pennsylvania, they have been driven westward by the tide of immigration setting in from the East. The hunters of the " beautiful river," the Lehigh, became exiles on the Susquchanna, the Allegheny, the Ohio, the Muskingum, and when the fugitives on the Thames (Upper Canada), after many years of outward tranquillity beard that there were yet remnants of their nation on the Kanzas, far beyond the Mississippi, an irresistible yearning compelled them to the West. In 1834 two brethren from Fairfield were deputed to reconnoitre that district, which it was reported to them had been reserved by the government of the United States for their nation. Though their report was unfavourable, still about 200?by far the greater part of the congregation?in July, 1837, left their homes at New Fair- field, to seek a new home in the wilds of the Western Indian Territory. Br. Jesse Vogler accompanied them, and after many hardships reached the Kansas River in November, with only sev...