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After a stay of 10 days I left Philadelphia the 6th of 

 August, intending to visit Bethlehem and from there 

 to proceed into the mountains. 



In the neighborhood of Philadelphia, towards Ger- 

 mantown, many doleful reminders of the war were 

 still to be met with, that is to say, burned and ruined 

 houses. The road to Germantown is over a level 

 sandy-loam, through a pleasant, open, well-cultivated 

 region, of many houses. Here as well as along the 

 exquisite Schuylkill are to be found sundry neat and 

 tasteful country-houses, although of a plan neither ex- 

 tensive nor durable. There met us going to market 

 many wagons, drawn by four or more splendid horses, 

 driven without reins merely by the voice and the whip. 



Germantown is distant only six English miles from 

 Philadelphia ; the place itself is two to three miles long. 

 The houses all stand more or less apart, and about each 

 are grounds with garden and outbuildings. Most of 

 the houses are well and thickly built of stone, and some 

 of them are really fine. Among the most conspicuous is 

 the house at the north end of the town, where Colonel 

 Musgrave with a company of British light infantry so 

 stoutly defended himself in the fall of 1776 against a 

 numerous corps of the American army. Germantown 

 owes its name and foundation to a German colonv 



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which was brought to Pensylvania by Franz Daniel 

 Pastorius of Weinsheim in the year 1685. The in- 



