172 Otfober 1748. 



but left the lupine, which was however very 

 green, looked very frefh, and was extremely foft 

 to the touch. Perhaps means may be found out . 

 of making this plant palatable to the cattle. In 

 the evening, we arrived at Trenton, after having 

 previoufly paffed the Delaware in a ferry. 



Gel. 28th. TRENTON is a long narrow town, 

 fituate at fome diftance from the river Delaware, 

 on a landy plain ; it belongs to New Jerfey, and 

 they reckon it thirty miles from Philadelphia. It 

 has two fmall churches, one for the people be- 

 longing to the church of England, the other for 

 the prefbyterians. The houfes are partly built 

 of ftone, though moft of them are .made of 

 wood or planks, commonly two {lories high, to-r 

 gether with a cellar below the building, and a 

 kitchen under ground, clofe to the cellar. The 

 houfes ftand at a moderate diftance from one an- 

 other. They are commonly built fo, that the 

 ftreet paffes along one fide of the houfes, while 

 gardens of different dimenfions bound the other 

 fide ; in each garden is a draw-well ; the place 

 is reckoned very healthy. Our landlord told us, 

 that, twenty-two years' ago, when he firft fettled 

 here, there was hardly more than one houfe ; 

 but from that time Trenton has encreafed fo much, 

 that there are at prefent near a hundred houfes. 

 The houfes were within divided into feveral 

 rooms by their partitions of boards. The inha- 

 bitants of the place carried on a fmall trade with 

 the goods which they got from Philadelphia, but 

 their chief gain confifted in the arrival of the 

 numerous travellers between that city and New 

 York ; for they are commonly brought by the 



