7 September 1748, 



greateft part inhabited by Germans, who from 

 tirne to time come from their country to North 

 America, and fettle here, becaufe they enjoy fuch 

 privilege^as they are not 'poffeffed of any where 

 elfe, Mc& of the inhabitants are Manufafturers, 

 and make almoft every thing in fuch quantity 

 and perfection, that in a fhort time this province 

 will want very little from England^ its mother 

 country. Moft of the houfes were built of the 

 ftone which is mixed with glimmer, and found 

 every where towards Philadelphia, but is more 

 fcarce further on. Several houfes however were 

 made of brick. They were comrnonly two ftories 

 high, and fometimes higher. The roofs confift- 

 ed of ihingles of the white cedar wood. Their 

 fhape refembled that of the roofs in Sweden, but 

 the angles they formed at the top were either ob- 

 tufe, right angled, or acute, according as the flopes 

 were fteep or eafy. They fonietimes formed ei- 

 ther the half of an o&agon, or the half of a do- 

 decagon. 



MANY of the roofs were made in fuch a man- 

 ner, that they could be walked upon, having a 

 baluftrade round them. Many of the upper fto- 

 ries had balconies before them, from whence the 

 people had a proipecl: into the ftreet. The WIIIT 

 dows, even thofe in the third ftory, had (butters. 

 Each houfehad a fine garden. The town had three 

 churches, one for the Lutherans, another for the 

 reformed Proteftants, and the third for the Qua- 

 kers. The inhabitants were fo numerous, that 

 the ftreet was always full. The Baptifts have 

 like wife a meeting-houfe. 



Sept. 22d. AFTER I had been at church, I 



employed 



