24 September 1748. 



Bengfton, a member of the Swedi/h confiflory, and 

 the fculptor Guftavus Heffelius, to fee the town 

 and the fields which lay before it. (The former 

 is brother of the rev. Meffrs. Andrew and Samuel 

 Hejfiftus, both minifters at Chrlftiana in New Swe* 

 den, and of the late Dr. John Hejfelius in the pro- 

 vinces of Nerik and Wermcland), My new friend 

 had followed his brother Andrew in 1711 to 

 this country, and had fince lived in it. I found 

 that I was now come into a new world. When- 

 ever I looked to the ground, I every where found 

 fuch plants as I had never feen before. When I 

 law a tree, I was forced to flop, and afk thofe 

 who accompanied me, how it was called. The 

 firft plant whic hftruck my eyes was an Andr&-> 

 fogon, or a kind of grafs, and grafs is a part of 

 Botany I always delighted in. I was feized with 

 terror at the thought of ranging fo many new 

 and unknown parts of natural hiftory. At firft I 

 only confidered the plants, without venturing on a 

 more accurate examination, 



AT night I took up my lodging with a grocer 

 who was a quaker, and I met with very good 

 honeft people in this houfe, fuch as moft peo- 

 ple of this profeflion appeared to me. I and my 

 Yimgftrcewiy the companion of my voyage, had 

 'a room, candles, beds, attend-ance, and three 

 meals a day, if we chofe to have fo many, for 

 twenty Shillings per week in Penfytvotoia curren- 

 cy. But wood, wafhing and wine, if required, 

 were to be paid for befides. 



Sept. the i6th. BEFORE I proceed I muft give 

 a fhort defcription of T*biladj>(phia y which I fhall 



uiently mention in the fequel of my travels, 



I hers 



