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time they make the shore, stop about ten minutes, ring 

 again and off. 



June 15. Fine and moderately hot, thermometer 83, 

 some few clouds occasionally give relief by interrupting the 

 rays of the sun. Whilst walking into the country and about 

 the city saw some fine orchards and large gardens, which 

 are kept in much better order, and also the farms, than 

 they are generally in Maryland. Orchards appear to bear 

 well every where, even on the poor thin soils, although the 

 trees on such are, of course, not large. The markets are 

 well supplied with meat of a good quality generally. Beef 

 and pork good, veal excellent and white. Kidney beans 

 Is. l\d. per peck. Plenty of young potatoes, but hardly 

 large enough yet. I have not seen any Dutch turnips. 

 Great quantities of strawberries and cherries, the last rather 

 dear but good, 2$d. per Ib. I recognise more of the English 



- features here than at Baltimore. A considerable number of 

 Quakers, whose clothing is less formal than their brethren 

 in England. Have been introduced to some English fa 

 milies, of which there are a considerable number in this 

 place. 



June 16. Started at six o clock this morning, in a steam- 



.boat, for New York ; landed at Bristol; then twenty-six 

 miles by stage, nine passengers in each, the luggage behind, 

 jolted along a rough road, smothered with dust, through 

 Trenton, Princeton, Queenston, and Kingston (in the state 

 of New Jersey); the last three towns the only relics of mo 

 narchy left. Stage horses pretty good ; they change them 

 quick. Taverns slovenly conducted, like most other 

 common ones in the country. Took steam at Brunswick 

 again, down a small river; dined on board, charge high, 

 3s. 4jid. ; to be sure we lived well were the meals not so 

 hurried (bell rings, a rush eat off in a few minutes), 

 fish, flesh, and fowl, puddings, pies and tarts, brandy, &c. 

 &c. ; the fare was very low, through opposition, 196 miles, 

 (26 of them by stage), luggage included, for 11s. 3d. only. 

 A gentleman on board, from Carolina, who had a number 

 of pieces of native gold from that state, where so much 

 has of late been found on the surface of the soil, and in 

 water courses ; one of the pieces, he said, was worth twenty- 

 eight dollars, very fine, and in a shape it might be supposed 

 to form, on being dropped into sand in a melted state. There 

 is something striking in the views of this county, arising 



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