60 September 1748. 



to come hither. Other countries, which 

 have been peopled for a long fpace of time, 

 complain of the fmall number of their in- 

 habitants. But Penfylvania f which was no 

 better than a defart in the year 1681, and 

 hardly contained five hundred people, now 

 vies with feveral kingdoms in Europe, in 

 number of inhabitants. It has received 

 numbers of people which other countries, 

 to their infinite lofs, have either neglected 

 or expelled. 



A wretched old wooden building, on 

 a hill near the river fomewhat north of the 

 Wickako church, belonging to one of the 

 Sons of Sven, of whom, as before-mention- 

 ed, the ground was bought for building 

 Philadelphia upon, is preferved on purpofe, 

 as a memorial of the poor ftate of that 

 place, before the town was built on it. 

 Its antiquity gives it a kind of fuperiority 

 over all the other buildings in town, though 

 in itfelf the worft of all. This hut was in- 

 habited, whilft as yet flags, deers, elks, 

 and beavers, at broad day light lived in the 

 future ftreets, church-yards, and market- 

 places of Philadelphia. The noife of a fpin- 

 ning wheel was heard in this houfe, before 

 the manufactures now eftablifhed were 

 thought of, or Philadelphia built. But with 

 all thefe advantages, this houfe is ready to 





fall 



