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beft of any. It not only fettled in the oak 

 cafks it is kept in, but becomes in a little 

 time {linking, when flopped up -, however 

 this naufeous fmell it foon loofes, after being 

 filled into large ftone juggs, andexpofed to 

 the open frefh air for two or three hours 

 together. Often the vapours arifing from a 

 calk which has been kept clofe and Hopped 

 up for a great while take fire, if a candle 

 is held near them when the cafk is opened, 

 and the T&ames wzter is thought to have 

 more of this quality than any others though 

 I was told that this even happened with 

 any other water in the fame circumilances. 

 Now I can refume my narrative, and 

 therefore obferve that we afterwards failed 

 on the river with a fair wind, pretty late at 

 night. In the dawn of the evening we paf- 

 fed by Newcaji/e, a little town on the weft- 

 ern fhore of the river Delaware. It was 

 already fo dark, that we could hardly know 

 it, but by the light which appeared through 

 feme of the windows. The Dutch are faid 

 to have been the firft founders of this place, 

 which is therefore reckoned the moft an- 

 cient in the country, even more ancient 

 than Philadelphia. But its trade can by no 

 means be compared with the Philadelphia 

 trade, though its fituation has more advan-r 

 tages in feveral refpeds ; one of which is, 



that 



