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the horfes and cows eat almoft all the other 

 plants, but left the lupine, which was 

 however very green, looked very frefh, and 

 was extremely foft to the touch. Perhaps 

 means may be found out of making this 

 plant palatable to the cattle. In the even- 

 ing we arrived at Trenton, after having pre- 

 vioufly palled the Delaware in a ferry. 



October the 28th. Trenton is a long 

 narrow town, fituate at fome diftance from 

 the river Delaware, on a fandy plain ; it 

 belongs to New Jerfey, and they reckon it 

 thirty miles from Philadelphia. It has two 

 fmall churches, one for the people be- 

 longing to the church of England, the 

 other for the prefbyterians. The houfes are 

 partly built of ftone, though mod of them 

 are made of wood or planks, commonly 

 two ftories high, together with a cellar be- 

 low the building, and a kitchen under 

 ground, clofe to the cellar. The houfes 

 ftand at a moderate diftance from one ano- 

 ther. They are commonly built fo, that 

 the ftreet paffes along one fide of the houf- 

 es, while gardens of different dimenfions 

 bound the other fide ; in each garden is a 

 draw-well ; the place is reckoned very heal- 

 thy. Our landlord told us, that twenty-two 

 years ago, when he firft fettled here, there was 

 hardly more than one houfe ; but from that 



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