148 WASTE-LAND WANDERINGS. 



as follows : " About noon I left Philadelpliia, and went 

 on board a small yaclit wliicli sails continually up and 

 down the river Delaware, between Trenton and Phila- 

 delphia. . . . Sturgeons leaped often a fathom into the 

 air. We saw them continuing this exercise all day till 

 we came to Trenton. The banks on the Pennsylvania 

 side were low, and those on the l!^ew Jersey side, steep 

 and sandy, but not very high. On both sides we per- 

 ceived forests of tall trees with deciduous leaves. . . . 



" The banks of the river were now chiefly high and 

 steej) (above Burlington) on the side of 'New Jersey, 

 consisting of a pale, brick-colored soil. On the Pennsyl- 

 vania side they were gently sloping, and consisted of a 

 blackish, ricli mould, mixed with particles of Glimmer 

 {Mica). On the New Jersey side appeared some firs, 

 but seldom on the other. . . . 



'^ The river Delaware was very narrow here (at mouth 

 of Crosswicks Creek), and the banks the same as we 

 found them yesterday." 



On his journey by stage from Trenton to New York 

 he noticed, near the former place, " abundance of chest- 

 nut-trees in the woods. They often stood in excessive 

 poor ground, which was neither too dry nor too wet," 

 and, let me add, they grow in this manner still ; but 

 there is one difference in them : the nuts are good in 

 proportion as the soil is suited to the tree. Too wet or 

 too sandy a situation will render the nuts small and 

 bitter. 



Our author says : " Tulip-trees did not appear on the 

 road, but the peoj^le said there were some in the woods." 

 They might have said there were a great many ; if not, 



