Excerpt from Hamilton College: Historical DiscourseNearly seventy years have passed away since yonder eminence witnessed a scene which its results have invested with a deep historic interest. A company of pioneers had gathered, amidst the forest that then clothed its summit, to lay the corner stone of Hamilton Oneida Academy, The position chosen for the establishment of this Institution was remarkable. It was near the geographical center of this State, soon to take and maintain the first rank among its sisters in the Union. A few rods east ran the Line of Property, which divided the retiring barbarism of the Aborigines from the incoming civilization of the Anglo-American.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.