So far as has yet been discovered, it seems to be barren of precious ores. The soil is what may very properly be called a rich loam, and beneath its surface is to be found, in different localities various qualities of stone in abundance and suitable for all purposes. Its surface is undulating but not so much so as to make it undesirable for agricultural purposes. It contains an area of some 24 square miles, and its acreage 15,360 of as good land as any of Adam's progeny need ask for. Its greatest length is something less than 6 miles, and width about 4 1/2 miles. It is bounded as follows - on the north by Upper Merion and the River Schuylkill, south by Philadelphia, east by the Schuylkill and west by Delaware County. It is the most southerly Township of Montgomery County Pennsylvania. We hope that you enjoy the reading of this text as much as we had transcribing it. To add clarity and/or readability to the text, prepositions/conjunctions were added to thetext as well as an occasional heading.If an archaic form of a word was used, its definition was added to the text enclosed in brackets example,.Three question marks enclosed in parenthesis were used in a words place if it could not betranscribed example, (?).A question mark enclosed in parenthesis was added to the end of an unclear word example, word(?).English variation of a word was not changed example, colour.Abbreviations were expanded to their full form.When reading through the text, the following editorial conventions were employed: All of us made every effort to accurately transcribe the text, but like any handwritten text, occasionally there were words that were difficult to decipher. Those who worked on this project were: Philip and Elizabeth Eidelson of Merion, Ann Bagley of Merion, and Gerald and Denise Francis of Bala Cynwyd. Over the summer months in 2001, a group of volunteers took on the project of transcribing this text which is presented below. The document was drafted in 1888 and was written in long hand in a booklet format. It is an unpublished and incomplete manuscript by Perry L. This document is from the John Roberts (the malster) Family Collection of The Lower Merion Historical Society having the Accession Number "R0101".
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