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twelve miles, the capital of the East Jerseys, which 

 is pleasantly situated upon a neck of land, included 

 between the Raritan and Amboy rivers and a large 

 open bay. This is generally the place of the gov- 

 ernor's residence; and alternately, here and at Bur- 

 lington, the capital of the West Jerseys, are held the 

 assemblies, and other public meetings; it contains 

 about a hundred houses, and has very fine barracks 

 for 300 men. In the afternoon I travelled sixteen 

 miles farther to Elizabethtown, leaving Wood- 

 bridge, a small village where there is a printing- 

 office, a little on my right hand. Elizabethtown 

 is built upon a small creek or river that falls into 

 Newark bay, and contains between two and three 

 hundred houses. It has a court-house, a church, 

 and a meeting-house; and barracks also like those 

 above mentioned. 



The next morning I rode out, in order to visit 

 Passaic Falls, distant about twenty-three miles, and 

 had a very agreeable tour. After riding six miles 

 I came to a town called Newark, built in an irregu- 

 lar scattered manner, after the fashion of some of 

 our villages in England, near two miles in length. 

 It has a church erected in the Gothic taste with a 

 spire, the first I had seen in America; and some other 

 inconsiderable public buildings. Immediately on 

 my leaving this place, I came upon the banks of 

 Second, or Passaic river, along which I travelled 

 seventeen or eighteen miles to the Falls, through a 



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