Travels Through North America 



and has a chapel and other proper offices. Two 

 students are in each set of apartments, which con- 

 sists of a large bed-room with a fire-place, and two 

 studies. There is a small collection of books, a few 

 instruments, and some natural curiosities. The ex- 

 pense to a student for room-rent, commons, and 

 tutorage, amounts to 25 1. currency per year. The 

 provost has a salary of 200 1. currency, and the pro- 

 fessors 50 1. each. The name of the college is Nassau 

 Hall. From hence, in the afternoon, I proceeded 

 to Brunswick, eighteen miles farther, a small town 

 of about a hundred houses, situated upon Raritan 

 river, where there are also very neat barracks for 

 300 men, a church, and a Presbyterian meeting- 

 house. It is celebrated for the number of its beau- 

 ties; and, indeed, at this place and Philadelphia, 

 were the handsomest women that I saw in America. 

 At a small distance from the town is a copper-mine 

 belonging to a Mr. French, (I was told) a pretty 

 good one. The next day I rode up the river, about 

 nine miles to the Raritan hills, to see a small cascade, 

 which falls about fifteen or twenty feet, very roman- 

 ticly, from between two rocks. The country I passed 

 through is exceedingly rich and beautiful; and the 

 banks of the river are covered with gentlemen's 

 houses. At one of these I had an opportunity of 

 seeing some good portraits of Vandyck, and several 

 other small Dutch paintings. 



On Monday the 7th, I proceeded to Perth Amboy, 

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