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Show TRAVELS THROUGH ORTH AMERIC'\: to thin!· t uta companion mu11 adJ to the pkafurc of a jonrn y, but , ·ere ah[o1ntcly nccefLtry to prevent its appeari g inlipi I, an I at times hit,hly irHo 11e to him. . . . For my own p•trt, I had fully detcnnmed m.my own mtn~ , upon re- . c· v t Olll' bcvond the Blue Mount .. uns, JH.:vcr ag:nn to fct out tlHllli1P. lOll 11•, ; on a j~urncy alone through any p;1rt of America, if I C<~uld pof1i bly pro-cure :11 \ "•• 6'' r.'..' l"·t blc comnr a• nion • The oo ·cntl 'men lnH.:t Wit h . had, as well as myfelf, travelled widely thr ugh ditfcrent part. of tbe Unttcd St.ttes, and fon 1ed nearly the fJ.m<.: rcColution; w, accor lmgly agreed to go fonvanl to Canada together, and having eno-ag<.:d a carriage for ourfdves as Etr as New York, we quitted th d o(c and difag rceablc city of Philadelphia on the twen tieth of June. T he road, ior the firfi twen ty- five mil s, runs very ncar the R ivet Delaware, which appear t gteat advantage through openings in the woods that arc fcattc rcd along its !hor s. I· rom the town of l3ri£l:ol in particular, which :O:and. on an elevated part of the ~ank , t ~enty mile a ove Philadelphia , it is fecn in a moO: pleafing po111t -'lf v1ew. The river, here about one mile wide, winds maj il' c, lly round the point whereon the tOW!~ is built, and for many miles, both upwards and downwards, it may be traced thr ugh a rich country, flowing gently along : in ge neral it i cov red with innumerable little floops and fchooners. Oppofitc to D1 iftol ibnd the city of Burlington, one of the largeO: in New Jerfey, built pa rtly upon an ifland and partly on the main !bore. It makes a goo l appearance, and adds confidcrably to the beauty of the prof peel: from Briflol. T en miles farther on, oppofite to Trenton, which (lands at the head of the Doop navigation, you crofs the river. T he falls or rapids, that prevent boats from afcending any higher, appear in fu ll view as you paft;, but their profpeCl: is in no way plcafing ; beyond them, the nav igation may be purfued for upwards of one hundred miles in fmall boats. Trenton is the capital of New J erfey, and contains about two hundred houfes, together with four churches. T he O:rccts arc commodious, and the houfes neatly built. The :O:ate-houfe, in hie congrcfs met for fome time during the war, is a heavy clumfy edifice. Twelve P R I N C E T 0 N. T welve miles {j om Tn.:ntr:m, ibnds Princeton, a neat town, containing abou t eighty dw<.:lling in one long :O:rect. Here is a large col lege, held in much rcput<.: by the ncighl ouring fiate . The number of :O:udcnts amounts to upv,:ard of fl:vcnty; from their appea rance, however, and the courfc of fi udies they feem to be en aged in, like all the otl cr American colleges I ever f;1w, it better dcferves the title of a g rammar fchoul th..tn a coll ef"c , The library, which we were fhewn , is mofl. wretched , confii1iiig, fo r the mofl part, of old theolco-i al books, not even arranged with any rcgul.lrity. An orr ·ry, contrived by 1\tfr. Rittenbm&:, whofe talen ts arc ro mnch boall:ed of by h is countrymen, fiands at one end of the apartment, but it is quite ou t of repair, as well as a f~.: w detached )a rts of a philofopbical apparatus , cnclofcd in the f.·unc glafs afc. At th oppolitc end of the room arc two Jinall cuphnards, which arc i11ewn as the :nufcum. Tbcfc contain a couple f Gn-1H fi uffcd alli1rators, and a few tinguL r fi{bc , in a mi(l.rablc flate of prcfcrvation, the 1kins of them being tatter ·d in innumerable places, from their bcin~ repeat dly tot1(:d abc ut. Tht: building is very plain, and of :O:onc; it i, one hu1 drcd and t.:ighty feet in front, and four floric :-. h igh . The nc.-t {bgc fron Princeton is Bnmfwick, con tai ning about two hundred houk ; there is nothing ve ry dcf<.:rvirw of attc11 tion in it, excepting it be tltc very neat and c mmodious wooden bridge that ha been thrown acr fs d c R ritan Ri\cr, "'hich is about two h undred paces over. The p.1rt over the c.:h.tn n<.:l is c6n trivcd to draw up, and on each fide i a foo tway guarded by rails, and ornamented with bmps. E liza .. beth T own and N ewark, wbi h you afterwards pafi' through in fucceCfion, arc both of them cheerful lively looking place : IlcJ th ,r of them is paved. Ne ;vark is built in a flraggling rna nner, and has very much the appearance of a large Et,t i01 villa ere: there is , gn.:cable fociety in thi towu . T hefe two towns arc only <.:ig li t miles apart, aJ Jd ca h ot them h as one or two excdlcnt ch urches, wbote tall fpires appe~rr very b au tiful as yo u approa h at a di(iancc, pc ping up above the wood:; by which they arc encircled. 1he :O:atc of New Jerfey, mcafurcd from north to fouth, is about ono h undn:d |