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pay the minifter's falary, and employ the 

 reft for other ufes. The houfes are built 

 of ftone, and look very pretty; yet they 

 are not built clofe together, but large open 

 places are left between them. The quakcrs 

 have a meeting-houfe in this town. The 

 Swedijh church, which I intend to mention 

 in the fequel, is half a mile out of town 

 eaflwards. The parfonage is under the 

 fame roof with the church. A little rivef 

 called Chrijiina-kill palTes by the town, and 

 from thence falls into the Delaware. By 

 following its banks one goes three miles 

 before one reaches the Delaware. The river 

 is faid to be fufficiently deep, fo that the 

 greateft veffel may come quite up to the town : 

 for at its mouth or jundure with the Dela-' 

 ware, it is flialloweft, and yet its depth even 

 there when the water is loweft, is from two 

 fathoms to two and a half. But as you go 

 higher its depth encreafes to three, three and a- 

 half, and even four fathoms. Thelargeftfhips^ 

 therefore may fafely, and with their full 

 cargoes come to, and from the town with 

 the tide. From Wilmington, you have a fine 

 profpedl of a great part of the river Dela- 

 ware, and the Ihips failing on it. On both 

 fides of the river ChriJlina^kill, almoft from 

 the place where the redoubt is built to its 

 jundure with the Delaware, are low mea-^ 

 dows, which afford a great quantity of hay 



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