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employ the reft for other ufes. The houfes arc 

 built of ftone, and look very pretty ; yet they 

 are not built clofe together, but large open places 

 are left between them. The quakers have a 

 meeting-houfe in this town. The Swedijh 

 church, which I intend to mention in the fequel, 

 is half a mile out of town eaftwards. The par- 

 fonage is under the fame roof with the church, 

 A little river called Chriftina-kill paffes by the 

 town, and from thence falls into the Delaware. 

 By following its banks, one goes three miles be- 

 fore one reaches the Delaware. The river is 

 laid to be fufficiently deep, fo that the greateft 

 veflel may come quite up to the town : for at its 

 mouth or juncture with the Delaware it is (hal- 

 lowed, and yet its depth even there, when the 

 water is loweft, is from two fathoms to two and 

 a half. But as you go higher, its depth encreafes 

 to three, three and a half, and even four fathoms. 

 The largeft fhips therefore may fafely, and with 

 their full cargoes, come to and from the town 

 with the tide. From Wilmington you have a 

 fine profpeft of a great part of the river Dela~ 

 ware, and the iliips failing on it. On both fides 

 of the river Chrijlina-kill, almoft from the place 

 where the redoubt is built to its juncture with 

 the Delaware, are low meadows, which afford a 

 great quantity of hay to the inhabitants. The 

 town carries on a corffiderable trade, and would 

 have been more enlarged, if Philadelphia and 

 Newwjt/e, which are both towns of a more an- 

 cient date, were not fo near on both fides of it. 



THE Redoubt, upon the river Chrijlina-kill, 

 was erected this fummer, when it was known 



that 



