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timber, and at fome diftance by themfelves flood 

 the ovens for baking, confifting commonly of 

 clay. 



On a hill covered with trees, and called Rock- 

 bill, I faw feveral pieces of ftone or rock, fo big, 

 that they would have required three men to roll 

 them down. But befides thefe there were few 

 great ftones in the country; for moft of thofe 

 which we faw, could eafily be lifted up by a fin- 

 gle man. In another place we perceived a number 

 of little round pebbles, but we did not meet with 

 either mountains or rocks. 



ABOUT noon we arrived at New Brunfwick, 

 a pretty little town in the province of Newjcrfey 9 

 in a valley on the weft fide of the river Rareton-, 

 on account of its low fituation, it cannot be feen 

 (coming from PenfyhaniaJ before you get to the 

 top of the hill, which is quite clofe up to it: the 

 town extends north and fouth along the river. 

 The German inhabitants have two churches, one 

 of ftone and the other of woodj the Englift 

 church is of the latter kind, but thl prefbyterians 

 were building one of ftone : the town houfe 

 makes likewife a pretty good appearance. Some 

 of the other houfes are built of bricks 5 but moft 

 of them are made either wholly of wood, or of 

 bricks and wood ; the wooden houfes are not 

 made of ftrong timber, but merely of boards or 

 planks, which are within joined by laths: fuch 

 houfes as confift of both wood and bricks, have 

 only the wall towards the ftreet of bricks, all the 

 other fides being merely of planks. This pecu- 

 liar kind of oftentation would eafily lead a tra- 

 veller, who paffes through the town in hafte, to 

 believe that moft of the houfes are built of bricks, 



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