New Jerfey> Trenton. 221 



fiver Delaware was very narrow here, and 

 the banks the fame as we found them 

 yefterday, after we had palled Burlington, 

 About eight o'clock in the morning we ar- 

 rived at Trenton*. 



''June the 2d. Th-is morning we left 

 Trenton, and proceeded towards New York. 

 The country I have defcribed before -j-. 

 The fields were fown with wheat, rye, 

 maize, oats, hemp, and flax. In feveral 

 places, we faw very large pieces of ground 

 with hemp. 



We faw abundance of chefnut-trees in 

 the woods. They often flood in exceflive 

 poor ground, which was neither too dry 

 nor too wet. 



Tulip-trees did not appear on the 

 road ; but the people faid there were fome 

 in the woods. 



The Beaver-tree ( Magnolia glauca) grows 

 in the fwamps. It was now in flower, and 

 the fragrancy of its bloffoms had fo per- 

 fumed the air, that one could enjoy it 

 before one approached the fwamps ; and 

 this fine fmell likewife (hewed that a bea- 

 ver-tree was near us, though we often 

 happened not to fee it. 



The 



•See Vol. I. p. 220. f Ibid, p. 224—237. 



