The History of Pittsburgh

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Excerpt from The History of Pittsburgh: With a Brief Notice of Its Facilities of Communication, and Other Advantages for Commercial and Manufacturing Purposes, With Two MapsThe title page of our book does this very brie¿y, but we will make out a preface by saying that our design in preparing our book was to give, from the scanty and scattered materials within our reach, a plain narrative of the steps by which the heavily timbered land, at the head of the Ohio, was converted into thriving and populous cities and Villages, and to point out the advantages which the inhabitants of this location enjoy, such as cheap fuel, salubrity of climate, fine and pure water, and very easy access to the various parts of the country around.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.