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streets of the town are straight and there are many 

 genteel houses, with a German Lutheran church, a 

 Presbyterian Meeting-house, a Town-hall, and a gaol. 

 Outside the town there is a long, new-built, four-file 

 barracks where during the war a number of workmen 

 made muskets, locks, sabres, and the like. Here also 

 cannons were forged from iron gads and hoops sol- 

 dered together, which in strength and beauty were 

 little inferior to metal ordnance. Not far from here 

 are Mr. Eger's iron-works. To the north, and not far 

 away, is a cave through the opening of which a loaded 

 wagon may pass, very spacious within and said to con- 

 tain smaller chambers and a fine spring. All that was 

 said of it did not tempt me to a visit, because nothing 

 more remarkable was probably to be expected than I 

 had already seen in other caves afore-mentioned. The 

 ladies of Carlisle are accustomed to resort thither to 

 drink tea. 



The bat common on the coast, without front-teeth, 

 (or the North American bat *) is seen also farther 

 inland. From the snout it is commonly four inches 

 long; breadth of the wings 10 inches, the face of a 

 light brown color, but the ears and wings black I have 

 also seen them with two front-teeth in the upper jaw, 

 straight and sharp, but with none in the under- jaw ; I 

 saw one here like this ; it may be asked whether these 

 are merely sports? It is more probable that the de- 

 scription given by Mr. Pennant of his New York bat 

 was made from an immature specimen. 



In a musk-rat f which we saw along this road I ob- 



* Schreber's Saiigthiere, I, 176. 



t Ondathra. Schreber's Saiigthiere, IV, 638. Kalm, III, 25. 



