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feveral places flowed a fmall rivulet. The 

 country was commonly plain, but fome- 

 times formed a few hills with an eafy de- 

 clivity, though no high mountains appear- 

 ed, and in a few places we found fome 

 fmall Hones not bigger than a fift. Single 

 farm houfes were fcattered in the country, 

 and in one place only was a fmall village : 

 the country was yet more covered with lo- 

 refts than cultivated, and we were for the 

 greater! part always in a wood. 



This day and the next we pafTed feveral 

 Kills, or fmall rivulets which flowed out of 

 the country into the Delaware with no great 

 defcent nor rapidity. When the tide came 

 up in the Delaware, it likewife rofe in fome 

 of thefe rivulets a good way ; formerly they 

 muft have fpread to a confiderable breadth 

 by the flowing of the tide, but at prefent 

 there were meadows on their banks, form- 

 ed, by throwing up ftrong dykes as clofe 

 as poflible to the water, to keep it from 

 overflowing. Such dykes were made along 

 all rivers here to confine their water -, there- 

 fore when the tide was higheft, the water 

 in the rivers was much higher than the 

 meadows : in the dykes were gates through 

 which the water can be drawn from, or 

 led into the meadows; they were fometimes 

 placed on the outward fide of the wall, fo 



that 



