Penfyfoania, Philadelphia. 43 



on the market-days. But on other days, they 

 are in vain fought for. 



PROVISIONS are always to be got frefh here, 

 and for that reafon moft of the inhabitants ne- 

 ver buy more at a time, than what will be fuffi- 

 cient till the next market-day. In fummer there 

 is a market almoft every day ; for the victuals do 

 not keep well in the great heat. There are two 

 places in the town where thefe markets are kept; 

 but that near the court-houfe is the principal. 

 It begins about four or five o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, and ends about nine o'clock in the forenoon. 



THE town is not enclofed, and has no other 

 cuftom-houfe than the great one for the {hips. 



THE governor of the whole province lives here; 

 and though he is nominated by the heirs of Pen, 

 yet he cannot take that office without being con- 

 firmed by the king of England. 



The quakers of almoft all parts of North- 

 America, have their great aflembly here once a 

 year. 



IN 1743? a fociety for the advancement of the 

 fciences was erected here. Its objects would have 

 been the curiofities of the three kingdoms of na- 

 ture, mathematics, phyfick, chemiftry, ceconomy, 

 and manufactures. But the war, which enfued 

 immediately, flopped all defigns of this nature, 

 and fince that time, nothing has been done to- 

 wards eftabli(hing any thing of this kind. 



THE declination of the needle was here ob- 

 ferved on the thirtieth of October 1750, old ftyle, 

 to be five deg. and forty-five min. weft. It was 

 examined by the new meridian, which ' was 

 drawn at Philadelphia in the autumn of the fame 



year, 



