260 November 1748. 



and black mould, and is very fertile ; but in New 

 "Jerfty it is more fandy and very poor, fo that the 

 horfes went very deep in fand in feveral parts of 

 the road. Near the place where we were brought 

 over, and a little way along the (hore, was a thick 

 fir wood : the trees were not very high, but in 

 their greateft vigour ; between them appeared now 

 and then a low bum of oak. But after travelling 

 about three Englijh miles, the fir wood ended, 

 and we faw no more trees of this kind till we 

 came to the church in Raccoon. In all the parts of 

 Penfyfoania where I have been, I have found few 

 fir woods ; on the other hand, they are abundant 

 in New Jerfey, and eipecially in the lower part 

 of that province. We afterwards found all the 

 day long no other trees, than fuch as have deci- 

 duous leaves; moft of thefe were oaks of differ- 

 ent forts, and of considerable height, but they 

 flood every where far enough afunder to admit 

 a chaife to pafs through the wood without any 

 inconvenience, there being feldom any fhrabs or 

 underwood between the trees, to obflrucT: the 

 way. In feveral places flowed a fmall rivulet. 

 The country was commonly plain, but fome- 

 times formed a few hills with an eafy declivity, 

 though no high mountains appeared, and in a few 

 places we found fome fmall (tones not bigger than 

 a fift. Single farm houfes were fcattered in the 

 country, and in one place only was a fmall vil- 

 lage : the country was yet more covered with 

 forefts than cultivated, and we were for the 

 greateft part always in a wood. 



THIS day and the next we pafled feveral Kills, 

 or fmall rivulets, which flowed out of the coun- 

 try into the Delaware with no great defcent nor 



rapidity. 



