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V. A Topographical and Medical Sketch of Bristol, 

 in Pennsylvania. Communicated in a letter to the 

 Editor, by Dr. Amos Gregg, junr. of Bristol. 



THE Borough of Bristol, in Bucks-County, 

 is situated on the River Delaware, twenty miles N. E. 

 from Philadelphia. The village contains (1804) about 

 one hundred houses, besides a church, Friends' and 

 Methodists' meeting-houses, and a public building, 

 which was formerly the county-goal. It is bounded 

 on all sides by water, having the Delaware on the S. 

 a stream of water, called Mill-creek, on the S. and W. 

 which flows from a pond of water. From near the 

 source of the pond, another creek arises, which by a 

 circuitous rout empties into the Delaware, at a place 

 called Adam's Hollow. This last is an artificial canal, 

 which was dug to prevent the pond overflowing the 

 land. Where it empties into the Delaware, it is a 

 hundred yards wide. 



The borough contains about four hundred and fifty 

 acres. Considering its quantity, the soil is vari- 

 ous. Opposite to the lower part of the town, to 

 Mill-creek, and to near the public road to Otter's- 

 Bridge, is an extensive morass, or " flat," over which 

 the tide regularly ebbs and flows. This was formerly 

 banked meadow : from this to the pond, it is chiefly 

 low meadow. There is, however, on each side of 

 the road, some arable land. Up the pond and to the 

 Delaware, the land is gravelly and dry, except a small 



