Sojourn in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Excursions into the Surrounding Region
Bethlehem on the Lecha or Lehigh – Dr. Saynisch – His solicitude – Natural history specimens – Lecha islands – Lecha Mountain Nazareth Delaware Gap – Easton – Delaware Gap – Pocono Mountains – Tunkhannock and Tobyhanna Creek – Beaver and Bear Creek – Susquehanna Valley – Wilkes-Barre – Falls of Solomon Creek – Neskopeck Valley – Lausanne – Nesquehoning Valley – Mauch Chunk on the Lecha – Collieries – Lecha Valley – Mahoning Creek – Lehigh Valley – Mahoning Gap – Preparations for departure from Bethlehem – Nazareth – Allentown
September 11, 1832
At six thirty in the morning the thermometer registered 14 1/2°R [64.6°F, 18.1°C], with a very overcast sky. Our cases were finished today and provided with labels. In the evening Mr. Bodmer arrived; I had left him behind to draw the waterfalls of the Solomon Creek, Mauch Chunk, and the Mahoning Valley. He brought along very precisely executed sketches of all these places. In the Mahoning Valley, he had visited the place where Gnadenhütten once stood and had sketched it, as well as the gravestone of the Brethren burned to death. He had copied the English inscription on it (it is made of white-and-gray marble), which reads as follows:
To the memory of
Gottlieb & Christina Anders
with their child Johanna;
Martin & Susanna Nitschmann;
Ann Catharina Sensemann; Leonhard Gattermeyer;
Christian Fabricius, Clerk.
George Schweigert;
John Fredrik Lesly; and
Martin Presser;
Who lived here at Gnadenhütten
unto the Lord!
And lost their lives in a surprize,
from Indian Warriors
November the 24th
1755
Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his Saints.
Psalm 116, 15 1788. And. W. Bover: Philadelphia
Concerning the history of this event see above at the bottom of p. 89.
