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Show •).6 TRAVELS TllPOUGII NORTII AMEPICA: 1 . ·t f the town. In the IH'.J g} l l) OUr h ooc ~ ' F e· ll's Poi. nt and B. alti. - ot 1c1 pat <' , F ·11' s Pom t JS . c fnokcn of as difiinCl: and fcp~u·ate pl.u .. cs. c n101 e ar r f 1 c·~r partners h "dlv the rdldcncc of fe,d~tring people, and o t lC you no . , . c / · ·1 1 (i·~ who arc fiationcd there to ;tttcntl to the (hlppll1g. o mercantl lOU c .. , • . 1 r. . p It" e ·trc of brick but The arca.tcr number of pnvate 10UH.:S 111 Ja JJnor , ' tnan ' ~trticnlat ly in the lkirts of the town, arc of wood. In Come ~f the ;,c, ~ 1\ rcc l' a few "I' pear to be we 11 b ni It, b l1 t Ill gcn·~ra 1 . the hon (cs 1 and 1· a1 e fm~dl, 1cavy, 11c011 v·~· 11 ie11 t. As for the nt ublic buddtn3"' there arc none worthy of heing mentiom .. d. The lhllr~:h~s a~d. f.)Llces_ fo_r puLlic worJhiJ arc ten 1.1 1 JHllll L1 er; one 1. e l.j)'-'c 1vely for l•.. j.) dcol),llta., n:-, Pt cfbvtl rians, German Lutherans, (J., crnu. c a1 \·I·l l!· (ls· , Rdon 1cd Cer-mans: N;colitcs or New (~ tkcrs, B.l;"~t;!ls, Roman Catholics, and two for 1\tkthodill.s. The 1 rdbytcrian churLh, which has 1atc1y been cr~tl.td, is the bdl buildina anwng them, and indecll the hand{~)mcfl: buJldmg in town. It 1s o/'brick, ~ith a portico in f1ont fupportu\ by iix p~llars of fionc. They have no ]c(., than three incorporated ha11ks in tl1is town, and the number of notes iiTued fi-0111 thcn1 is fo rrre,lt, as almofl to preclude the circul..1tion of fpecie. S(l1nc of the notes arc for as fmall a fum as a Jing11! dollar, and being much more porta blc tha11 fi 1 vcr, are generally pref<.;rred. As for gold, it is very fc<ure; I hat dly ever rnct with it durinr>· two months thc..t I remained in l\1.uybnd. b . Amongfl the inhabit1nts of B.1ltirnore arc to be found Eng11 f11 lrjfll> rotch, and French. The Iri fh a ppeor to be mofl numerous; and ma 1y of the principal merchants in town a1c in the number. Since the war, a great many French have arrivc(l both ftom Franct: and fr<>1n the \Vdt India Ifl.1nds. With a few exceptions the inlubit:1nts arc all en-· 6agcd in tr. de, which js clofcly at ten led to. TIH~Y arc mofl ly plain people, fociablc however amongf>t 1 hemfclvcs, and very friendly and hofJJitJble towards flrangers. Card: and dancing arc f:tvourik atnuil:- 111ents, both in private :tnd at public afkmblics, which aJ c held every fortnight. There arc two th ·atrcs here, in which there arc pcrfonnanccs occafionally. The oldcfl: of them, which llands in th road to Fdl's Pointp is moil: WI etched, and appears little better than a heap of Ioo[c board~; for ~ a long E X E C R A B L E R 0 A IJ 5 a long tin1e it 1: y quite negkclcd, b11t I1as 1Jtely been J1ttcd up for a c01npany of French adors, the only one 1 ever he,u·d of in the country. Baltimore, lil·c Phibd~l ph i:t, has fu B·ered fi-otn the ra vagcs of the yellow fever. During the autumn it is generally unhealthy, ~'1d thofc who can an-onl it retire to country feats in the ncighGourlvJJt.l, of which fornc arc n1ofl: delightfully fitu,ltcd . Frotn Baltimore to 'Va(hington, which is forty miles di(bnt, the cou11try wears but a pnor apJH.:arancc. The f<Jil in fm1e parts con!ifls of a yellow chy mi , 'e~l with gr.lvcl ; in <>ihcr p.trts it is very i:tn ly. In the ncin hl>aurhooJ of th~ creeks :l11ll b twcc11 the hill ~ arc patches of 0 nch black earth, called bottc.Hllf, the trees upon which grow to a large fizc; bllt where there is gravel they arc very ftna11. ~fhc roads paf1inb over the(~ l>ottoms are wurf~ tlun any I ever n1ct with cHc\.vherc. In drivin•r over one of th e1n ncar the head waters of a branch of P.1tuxent 0 ' river, a few d.1ys after a heavy f.tll of rain, the whcc:ls of a fulky which I was in funk up to the very boxes. I• or a n1oment I defj),lircd of being ahle to get out without afTifl:ancc, when n1y horfc, which was vt.:.ry powerful, finding hirnf'·lf jn1peded, threw himfdf upon hi!J haunches, and difcJ1gaging his fcJrc-feet, made a vi r~orous plunge forwards, which ] uckily d iil:ngagcd both him felf and the fu1 ky, anc.l freed me fron1 my cmbarrafTment. I was afterwards infonnec.l that General W,l{hington, ac; h,~. was' bo oincvr to nwet con b rds a n10rt time b~fore, was ftOJ)J1Cd in the very !:unc place, his carriage tlnking fo deep in the 1nud that it was found neccffiu·y to fend to a twighhouring houfc for rOJ cs and poles to ex tric.1tc it. Over fomc of the bottom., which were abfolutely .impafi.tble in their natnr.1l flatc, caufewnys have been thro\vn, which arc made w·ith Llrgl! trees laid fide by tide acrofs the road. For a time thefe ca ufcways afford a commodiou<1 p.dEt6e; but they do not lal1: long, as nuny of the tr~::es !inking into the foft i<.>il, and others, cxpofcd to the continual attrition of waggon w1h. .. cls in a particul.tr part, breaking afundcr. In this ftatc, full of unf<·l·n obfLtck:-, it .is abfolntcly a n1atter of d.tn_;er for a pcrfon un.tcquc. intcc.l with tl.t· road to attempt to drive a carrj.1ge along it. The bridgts over the creel s, covered with loof~..: boards, arc as bad as the caufl ways, and totter as a carriage pa!fes over. 'rhat the JcgiC-I~ z lature |