3<5 September 1748. 



of reGommendation from Mr. Abraham 

 Spaldingy Mr. Peter Collmfon, Dr. Mitchel, 

 and others to their friends here. It was 

 eafy for me therefore to get acquaintance. 

 Mr. Benjamin Franklin, to whom Penjylva- 

 nia is indebted for its welfare, and the learn- 

 ed world for many new difcoveries in Elec- 

 tricity, was the firft, who took notice of 

 me, and introduced me to many of his 

 friends. He gave me all neceffary inftruc- 

 tions, and (hewed me his kindnefs on many 

 occafions. 



I WENT to day accompanied by Mr. 

 'Jacob Bengtfon, a member of the Swedijh 

 confiftory and the fculptor Gujiavus Heff'e- 

 liusy to fee the town and the fields which 

 lay before it. (The former is brother of 

 the rev. Meflrs. Andrew and Samuel HeJJ'e- 

 litis, both minifters at Chrijiiana in new 

 Sweden, and of the late Dr. J ohn Heff'elius 

 in the provinces of Nerik and Wermeland) , 

 My new friend had followed his brother 

 Andrew in 1711 to this country, and had 

 fince lived in it. I found that I was now 

 come into a new world. Whenever I look- 

 ed to the ground, I every where found fuch 

 plants as 1 had never feen 'before. When 

 I faw a tree, I was forced to flop, and afk 

 thofe who accompanied me, how it was 

 called. The firfl plant which flruck my 



eyes 



