قراءة كتاب Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck
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Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck
align="left">Organization of Loudoun and the Founding of Leesburg
ILLUSTRATIONS
| John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun Frontispiece | Face Page |
| Map of Loudoun County | 1 |
| Sir Alexander Spotswood | 20 |
| Sir Peter Halkett, Bart | 83 |
| The Fall of Braddock | 93 |
| William Petty-FitzMaurice | 116 |
| Nicholas Cresswell | 129 |
| Noland Mansion | 139 |
| Oatlands | 171 |
| Foxcroft | 173 |
| Rockland | 175 |
| General George Rust | 176 |
| Oak Hill | 178 |
| Oak Hill, East Drawing Room | 179 |
| Old Valley Bank | 203 |
| Battle of Ball's Bluff | 205 |
| Old John Janney House | 226 |
LEGENDS OF LOUDOUN
CHAPTER I
THE EARLIER INDIANS
Loudoun County, VirginiaThe county of Loudoun, as now constituted, is an area of 525 square miles, lying in the extreme northwesterly corner of Virginia, in that part of the Old Dominion known as the Piedmont and of very irregular shape, its upper apex formed by the Potomac River on the northeast and the Blue Ridge Mountains on the northwest, pointing northerly. It is a region of equable climate, with a mean temperature of from 50 to 55 degrees, seldom falling in winter below fahrenheit zero nor rising above the upper nineties during its long summer, thus giving a plant-growing season of about two hundred days in each year.
The county exhibits the typical topography of a true piedmont, a rolling and undulating land broken by numerous streams and traversed by four hill-ranges—the Catoctin, the Bull Run and the Blue Ridge mountains and the so-called Short Hills. These ranges are of a ridge-like character, with