Mr.McKinney, the owner, had a high idea of the value of his farm.

What we had expected to purchase for five or six hundred dollars an acre cost us two thousand.

But since then we have been compelled to add to our original purchase at a cost of five thousand dollars per acre.
There, on the very field of Braddock's defeat, we began the erection of our steel-rail mills.

In excavating for the foundations many relics of the battle were found--bayonets, swords, and the like.

It was there that the then provost of Dunfermline, Sir Arthur Halkett, and his son were slain.