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Of limited education and narrow reading, tall and well made, precise and prim in his methods, stiff in his manners and chirography; with an instinct of thrift which led him to manage farms and raise horses, to seek in his love affairs, whether maid or widow, for a woman "wi lots o' manny laaid by, and a nicetish bit of land, " and enabled him to accu- WASHINGTON IN PENNSYLVANIA 47 mulate one of the largest fortunes of his time; but ever a gentleman, whose youth had been devoted to fox-hunting a...nd athletic sports, and who since he was sixteen had been surveying lands in the valleys of Virginia, left the narrow confines of his early associations and took his first step into the outer and larger world. Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, sent him with a little force of seven men to the French commander in western Pennsylvania to protest against the building of forts and the occupancy of the land. Starting on the 15th of Novem- ber, 1753, through forests primeval, in the winter, surrounded by and often confronted with the savages, fired at by a treacherous Indian guide, rafting on the partly frozen rivers, he found his way to the site of Pittsburg and to a fort fifteen miles south of Lake Erie.
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