JOURNEY THROUGH JERSEY 19 



United States without permit from them. So I turned 

 to this irritated American, and without circumlocution 

 told him how I had come from the English army, like 

 him had no pass from one side or the other, intended 

 to travel through the country, hoped I should meet with 

 no difficulties, and so forth. The answer which I was 

 looking for followed. The Captain seized with pleas- 

 ure the opportunity which I offered him to show him- 

 self magnanimous. He volunteered to take me to his 

 Excellency Mr. Livingstone, the Governor of New 

 Jersey, and went with me to his country-seat in the 

 neighborhood of Elizabethtown. However, we had 

 not the pleasure of finding the Governor at home, which 

 I the more regretted because my companion had taken 

 trouble on the way to give me a high opinion of the 

 man with the noble Roman nose (for that was the 

 chief ground of his argument). Instead, I was taken 

 before certain other officers and furnished with a letter 

 of recommendation to a member of the Congress, near 

 Princetown. Meanwhile, I regarded this unexpectedly 

 polite behavior as a good omen, causing me to hope for 

 pleasant treatment farther on, and in this I was not 

 deceived. 



Elizabethtown is a market town of middling size 

 which to be sure has no particularly large trade, but on 

 account of the passing between Philadelphia and York 

 many strangers are to be seen in the place. Oppor- 

 tunity was afforded us here of seeing a female opas- 

 sum with four young, which had recently been caught 

 in the neighborhood. It is remarkable that these ani- 

 mals are found no farther north than this, and never 

 on the east shore of the Hudson. Only in recent years 

 have they been seen this side the Delaware in Jersey ; 



