30 September 1748. 



of recommendation from Mr. Abraham 

 Spalding, Mr. Peter Col/in/on, Dr. Mitchel, 

 and others to their friends here. It was 

 eafy for me therefore to get acquaintance. 

 Mr. Benjamin Franklin, to whom Penfylva- 

 nia is indebted for its welfare, and the learn- 

 ed world for many new difcoveries in Elec- 

 tricity, was the firft, who took notice of 

 me, and introduced me to many of his 

 friends. He gave me all necerTary inftruc- 

 tions, and fhewed me his kindnefs on many 

 occafions. 



I went to day accompanied by Mr. 

 "Jacob Bengtfon, a member of the SwediJJo 

 confiftory and the fculptor Guftavus HejJ'e- 

 lius, to fee the town and the fields which 

 lay before it. (The former is brother of 

 the rev. Meflrs. Andrew and Samuel Heffe- 

 lius, both minifters at Chrij liana in new 

 Sweden, and of the late Dr. John Heffelius 

 in the provinces of Nerik and Wermeland). 

 My mew friend had followed his brother 

 Andrew in 171 1 to this country, and had 

 fince lived in it. I found that I was now 

 come into a new world. Whenever I look-^ 

 ed to the ground, I every where found fuch 

 plants as I had never feen before. When 

 I faw a tree, I was forced to flop, and afk 

 thofe who accompanied me, how it was 

 called. The firft plant which ftruck my 



eyes 



