September 1748. 



meet with excellent matters in all trades, and 

 things are made here full as well as in England* 

 Yet no manufactures, efpecially for making fine 

 cloth, are eftablifhed. Perhaps the reafon is, thaC 

 it can be got with fo little difficulty from Eng- 

 land, and that the breed of flieep which is brought 

 over, degenerates in procefs of time, and affords 

 but a coarfe wool. 



HERE is great plenty of provifions, and their 

 prices are very moderate. There are no examples 

 of an extraordinary dearth. 



EVERY one who acknowledges God to be the 

 Creator, preferver, and ruler of all things, and 

 teaches or undertakes nothing againft the ftate, or 

 againft the common peace, is at liberty to fettle, 

 flay, and carry on his trade here, be his religious 

 principles ever fo ftrange. No one is here mo- 

 lefted on account of the erroneous principles of 

 the doctrine which he follows, if he does not ex- 

 ceed the above-mentioned bounds. And he is 

 fo well fecured by the laws in his perfon and pro- 

 perty, and enjoys fuch liberties, that a citizen 

 of Philadelphia may in a manner be faid to live in 

 his houfe like a king. 



ON a careful confideration of what I have al- 

 ready faid, it will be eafy to conceive how this 

 city fhould rife fo fuddenly from nothing, into 

 fuch grandeur and perfedion, without fuppofing 

 any powerful monarch's contributing to it, either 

 by punifhing the wicked, or by giving great fup- 

 plies in money. And yet its fine appearance, good 

 regulations, agreeable fituation, natural advanta- 

 ges, trade, riches and power, are by no means 

 inferior to thole of any, even of the mcft ancient 

 towns in Europe. It has not been neceflary to 

 force 



