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pretty well inhabited, but in nioft places full of 

 fmall pebbles. 



WE faw Guinea Hens in many places where we 

 pafTe<I by. They fometimes run about the fields, 

 at a good diftance from the farm-houfes. 



ABOUT eight Englifh miles from New Brunf- 

 wick, the road divided. We took that on the left, 

 for that on the right leads to Amboy, the chief 

 fea-town in New Jerfey. The country now made 

 a charming appearance; fome parts being high, 

 others forming vallies, and all of them well cul- 

 tivated. From the hills you had a profpeft of 

 houfes, farms, gardens, corn-fields, forefts, lakes, 

 iflands, roads, and paftures. 



IN moft of the places where we travelled this 

 day the colour of the ground was reddim. I make 

 no doubt, but there were ftrata of the before- 

 mentioned red limeftone under it. Sometimes the 

 ground looked very like a cinnabar ore. 



WOOD-BRIDGE is a fmall village in a plain, 

 confiding of a few houfes : we flopped here to 

 reft our horfes a little. The houfes were moft of 

 them built of boards; the walls had a covering 

 of mingles on the outfide; thefe mingles wers 

 round at one end, and all of a length in each 

 row: fome of the houfes had an Italian roof, but 

 the greateft part had roofs with pediments ; moft 

 of them v/ere covered with fhingles. Jn moft 

 places we met with wells, and buckets to draw- 

 up the water. 



ELIZABETH-TOWN is a fmall town, about 

 twenty Engtijh miles diftant from New Brimf* 

 wick : we arrived there immediately after fun-fet- 

 ting. Its houfes are moftly fcattered, but well 

 built, and generally of boards, with a roof of 



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