Photo by Ph. B. Wallace
DAVID RITTENHOUSE'S HOUSE, NORRITON, PENNA.

XXXVII

THE DAVID RITTENHOUSE HOME, NEAR
PHILADELPHIA

THE HEADQUARTERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S FRIEND
AND CO-LABORER

"See the sage Rittenhouse with ardent eye

Lift the long tube and pierce the starry sky!

He marks what laws the eccentric wanderers bind,

Copies creation in his forming mind,

And bids beneath his hand in semblance rise