1 3 <? October 1748. 



made ufe of in many places, as a hedge round 

 corn-fields and gardens ; and on my whole voy- 

 age, I did not fee that any other trees were made 

 ufe of for this purpofe, though the Englifhmen 

 here well know that the hawthorn makes a much 

 better hedge. The privet hedges grow very 

 thick and clofe, but, having no fpines, the hogs, 

 and even other animals, break eafily through 

 them ; and when they have once made a hole, it- 

 requires a long while before it grows up again. 

 But when the hedges confift of fpinofe bufhes, 

 the cattle will hardly attempt to get through 

 them, 



ABOUT noon I came through Chcjler, & little 

 market-town, which lies on the Delaware. A 

 rivulet, coming down out of the country, pafies 

 through this place, and difcharges itfelf into the 

 Delaware. There is a bridge over it. The 

 houfes (land difperfed. ' Moft of them are built 

 of ftone, and two or three ftories high ; fome are 

 however made of wood. In the town is a church, 

 and a market-place. 



WHEAT was now fown every where. In 

 fome places it was already green, having been 

 fown four weeks before. The wheat fields were 

 made in the Engilfo manner, having no ditches 

 in them, but numerous furrows for draining the 

 water, at the diftance of four or fix foot from 

 one another. Great ftumps of the trees which 

 had been cut down, are every where feen on the 

 fields, and this Chews that the country has been 

 but lately cultivated. 



THE roots of the trees do not go deep into the 

 ground, but fpread horizontally. I had oppor- 

 tunities 



