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Show I')O TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA: hundred and fixty miles in length; it varies in breadth from -~dorty t<lf . ht miles. The northern part o f t· t l·S cw. Jte• d by the .b lue 1•1 .g e .o etg Y . ) f 1 · . and fhoot1JJg off m d1f~ of mout tains, runnmg through I cnn y vantl' ' . ferent dt.r eC.h. ons fir om t 11 t.S ·1. ·L l Jg e, there are fevcral other [mall mountains . 1 . 1 b ·hood The fouthern part of the fbtc, Oll the ontrary, ll1 t lC 11Clg i OUl • · · d f, which lies towards the fea, i~ extremely flat and f..'lndy; .It ts coven~ or .1 ·s too-ether with pine trees alone, ufually calkd p~ne. barr~ns, and I. ll! c 1"b 1 lt.vatcd 1~hc mid k part, whi. c1 . rt ' l ,..,. f ·om 1 JS crouct 111 gou\., r 1 · very 1tt e cu I ' • . . Ph iladel >h i,t to New York, abounds With ex ten (i ve tract ~f good Ltnc:' the fi.>il fv aries, however, conftderab 1y , m· 1r.o me P1 a ccs b mg [·w dy ', m. ·others t1oney, and in others conCifl:ing of a rich brown mo_uld. 11us part of the fiate, as far as Newark, is on the whole well culttvatcd, ~nd 1cattered about in different place are fomc excellent .fimn hou!cs; a )"ood deal of uncleared land, however, fiill remains. Ueyond N cwark the:: ountry is extremely flat and marfl1y. Between the town and the. Pofaick River there is one marfl1, which alone extend u~wards ~f twenty miles, and is about two miles wide wh~re yon pa·is ov·er 1t. The road is here formed with large logs of wood la1d clofc together, and 011 each fide arc ditches to keep it dry. This was the firfi place where we met with mufquitoes, and th ·y annoyed us not a little in ~afiing. Towards the latter end of the fummer Philadelphia is much mfefi:ed with them; but they had not made their apj earance when we left that city. The Pofaik River runs clofe upon the borders of this ~arfh, and there i an excellent wooden bridge acrofs it, fomewhat fim1br to that at New Brunfwick over the Raritan River. About fifteen mile above it there is a very .remarkable fall in the river. The river, at the fjl}, i about forty yards wide, and flows with a gentle current till it wme. within a few perches of the edge of the fall, when it fuddenly pre(.; j )itate. jtfclf, in one entire fheet, over a ledge of rock of nearly eighty $eet in perpendicular heioht; below, it runs on through a chafrn, formed f immenfe rock on ea h fide; they are higher tlun the fall, and · em to have been once united together. In this neighbourhood there is a very rich copper mine : repeated utternpts have been made to work it; but whether the price oflabour be too NEW Y 0 R K. too great for fuch an und 1-taking, or the proprietors have not proceeded with judgment, certain it i, , that they have always mifcarried, and fufi:aincd very conl1dcrable Jofics thereby. This mine was fidl: difcov red in 175'1, by a perfon who, pafiing along about three o'clock in the morning, obferved a blue flame, about the lizc of a man, ifiuing from the earth, which afw:rwards Coon die I away : he marked the place with a ihkc, and when the hill wa opcned, fevera.l large lumps of virgin cop cr were ound. The vein of copper in the mine is faid to be much richer now than when firfi: opened. From the Pofaik to the North River the country is hilly, barren, and uninterdling, till you come very near the latter, when a noble view opens all at once of the city of New York on the oppofite fhore, of the harbour, and fhipping. The river, which is very grand, can be traced for fcveral miles above the city ; the banks arc very fleep on the J cr1(;y :fide, and beautifully wooded, the trees almofl dipping into the water : numbers of vcffcls plying about in every part r mlc.:r the fcene extremely fj)rightly and interefi:iug. New York is built on an ifland of its own name, formed by the North and the Eafi Riv rs, and a creek or inlet conneCting both of the£(; together. The ifland is fourteen miles long, and, on an average, about one mile in breadth; at its fouthern extremity fl :mds the city, which extends from one river to the ot·her. The North, or Hudfon River, is nearly two miles wide; the Eafi:, or the North-eafl: one, as it fhould rather be called, is not quite fo broad. The depth of water in each, clofc to the city, is fufficient for the largefi: merchant velfcls. The principal feat of trade, however, is on the Eafl: River, and mofi: of the vclfels lie there, as during winrer the navigation of that riv .... r is not fo foon impeded by the ice. At this fide of the town the houfes and fiores are built as clofely as poffible. The fl:r ets are narrow and inconvenient, and, as but too commonly is the cafe in deaport towns, very dirty, and, confequently, during the fummer feafon, dreadfully unhealthy. It was in this part of the town that th yellow fcv r raged witl fuch violence in 1795; and during 1796, many perfons that remained very confi:antly there alfo fell victims to a fever, which if not th~ yellow z kvcr~ |
