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Show THAVFLS TTIROUGII THE UNITED STATE : lkthkhetTI i · vi!itt:d du1 in3 fumm r time by gr ·at numbers of people frcm the ncighbomin!~ larg · towm, who arc led thither by curiolity or plca!mc; and rcgtdru ly, twic a week throu rybout the year, a .public flage waggon runs between it and Phihdclphi,L We engaged th~s carriarrc to ourfdves, and early on tl1c fccond day from that on whtch we quitted Bethlehem, rc;lchcd the capital, after an • bicnc~ of~ fome\ ha 1~1orc than, five months. • CROSS TliE DELA A R r .. L E T T E R X XVIII. Le,z e Pbi!adclpbia.-Arri·ve at New York.-!1'/(tt Long [fland.-Drct~djid havoc by the Ycl/orw Fcwr.-Dutc!J fn!Jabitallts Ji!fpicious qf StrmLgen.- R.wd!mt Farmcrs.-Numbcr of In!Jabitrmls.-Cultt'1·e of Corn. -Im11m;ji: QJ.,'antitics of GrOt!fi' rmd Deer.-Lwws to jJrotd:Z thcm.-fncrcafi qf thcj(Jmc.-Dccrcaji: of Bt:avers.-Ncw York t~gret:able to Strcmgcrs.- Conclzifto7t. MY DEAR STR, New York, January '797· A FT E R having remained a few days at Philadelphia, in order to arranl7e fome matters preparatory to my takinrr a final leave of that city, I fct out on c more [i r New York. The month of December had now arrived ; confiderablc quantities of Iiww had f:tllen; and the 1 ecn winds fr m the north-wcfl. had already fpn;ad a thick crufl: of icc over tbc Delaware, whofe majefl.ic flream is always the lafl: in thi part of the country to fi cl the chilly touch f the hand of wi11ter. The ice howl.!v~r, was not yet fl:r n enough t fu{lain the wei6ht of a flagc . c,lrtiage, neither wa it very re ulily to be broken; fo that when we reach~ cd the falls of the river, where it i · ufual to crof· in •>oing from Philadelph ia to Kcw York, we had to rctn<tin f(n· upW<lrd. f tw honrs, ihivcr:ng before the bitter bl..lils, until a p tfl:tt;c wa · petKd tor the b ,l t, which was to convey us and our veh ick to the oppofite fide. The croffing of the Delaware at this place with :1 whed c.mi,t . .;c, <.. vcn when the r·v .... r is frozen ov ·r ancl the icc fut1lciently thi k to bear, is gene1.tlly a mancr of conJi l<.:rabl~ inconvenience and tro 1hle to travellers, owi11g to the br rc i1 regular m:1fle · of icc formed there, w I en th..: fro!l: firfl: let· m, by th impctu lfity or the current, whic:h brcakinJ al ay th .. {kn i r fial es of ice from the edges of the banks, gradu1lly drift•; tr ·m np i11 lay rs over each oth ·r; it i only< t this ruggtd p.trt, that .t wl cd CJ!"ri. lge can fafcly pafs down th banks of the river. Wh n the ground i~ covered with fnow, a Ocigh 0 1 flcdJ is hy fJr the moil: cornmo ious furt of carria·•-- to travd in, :1s neitHer it nor the /;) 3 N 2 pa fkngcrs I |
