34 September 1748. 



which they performed the fervice both in German 

 and in Englijb; not only twice or three times 

 every Sunday, but likewife every night after it is 

 grown dark. But in the winter of the year 1750, 

 they were obliged to drop their evening meetings f 

 fome wanton young fellows having feveral times 

 difturbed the congregation, by an inftrument 

 founding like the note of a cuckoo; for this noife 

 they made in a dark corner, not only at the end 

 of every ftanza, but likewife at that of every line,, 

 wh ilft they were finging a hymn. 



THOSE of the E&j$b church, the New-lights, 

 the Quakers, and the Germans of the reformed 

 religion, have each of them their burying places* 

 on one fide out of town, and not near their 

 churches, though the firft of thefe fometimes 

 make an exception. All the others bury their 

 dead in their church-yards, and the Moravian bre~ 

 thren bury where they can. The Negroes are bu- 

 ried in a particular place out of town. 



I NOW proceed to mention the other publick 

 buildings in Philadelphia. 



THE T'own-ball, or the place where theaffem-' 

 blies are held, is fituated in the weftern part of the 

 town; it is a fine large building, having a tower 

 with a bell in the middle, and is the greateft or- 

 nament to the town. The deputies of each pro* 

 vince meet in it commonly every Otfober, or even 

 more frequently if circumftances require it, in 

 order to confider of the welfare of the country, 

 and to hold their parliaments or diets in mini- 

 ature. There they revife the old laws, and make 

 new ones. 



ON one fide of this building {lands the /- 



brary l 



