Book excerpt: Excerpt from More Pennsylvania Mountain Stories History of the Five Counties. These related to the Supernatural Element of pioneer life and, from the number of them, the author began to feel that he had opened up a verit able treasure house. About the same time an aged Indian came to mcelhattan, the beautiful mountain retreat where the author spent many of his boyhood days. This old man claimed - that he had once lived at Mc Elhattan, but most probably meant N ichols's Run across the river, where the Indians ling ered for many years. The aged redman re counted to him the Legend of Penn's Cave and it made a deeper impression than any of the other stories he had heard. 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.