Nor can you come upon a more lovely spot in which to build a home, for it was the famed Wyoming Valley, in Western Pennsylvania.
Now, since some of my young friends may not be acquainted with this place, you will allow me to tell you that the Wyoming Valley lies between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghany Mountains, and that the beautiful Susquehanna River runs through it.
The valley runs northeast and southwest, and is twenty-one miles long, with an average breadth of three miles.

The bottom lands--that is, those in the lowest portion--are sometimes overflowed when there is an unusual quantity of water in the river.

In some places the plains are level, and in others, rolling.

The soil is very fertile.
Two mountain ranges hem in the valley.

The one on the east has an average height of a thousand feet, and the other two hundred feet less.
The eastern range is steep, mostly barren, and abounds with caverns, clefts, ravines, and forests.