28 September 1748. 



morning we weighed anchor, and continu- 

 ed our voyage up the river. The country- 

 was inhabited almoft every where on both 

 fides. The farm-houfes were however 

 pretty far afunder. About eight o'clock in 

 the morning we failed by the little town of 

 Cheftery on the weftern fide of the river. 

 In this town, our mate, who was born in 

 Philadelphia, fhewed me the places, which 

 the Swedes ftill inhabit. 



At laft we arrived in Philadelphia about 

 ten o'clock in the morning. We had not 

 been more than fix weeks, or (to fpeak 

 more accurately) not quite forty one days 

 on our voyage from Grave/end to this place, 

 including the time we fpent at Dealy in 

 fupplying ourfelves with the neceflary fre(h 

 provifions, &c. our voyage was therefore 

 reckoned one of the fhorteft. For it is 

 common in winter time to be fourteen, 

 nineteen, or more weeks in coming from 

 Grave/end to Philadelphia. Hardly any 

 body ever had a more pleafant voyage over 

 this great ocean, than we had. Captain 

 Lawfon affirmed this feveral times. Nay 

 he affured us he had never feen fuch calm 

 weather in this ocean, though he had croff- 

 ed it very often. The wind was generally 

 fo favourable that a boat of a middling fize 

 might have failed in perfect fafety. The 



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