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to the inhabitants. The town carries on * 

 confiderable trade, and would have been 

 more enlarged, if Philadelphia and New- 

 cajiky which are both towns of a more anci- 

 ent date, were not fo near on both fides of it. 

 The Redoubt upon the river Chrijlina- 

 killf was eredted this fummer, when it was 

 known that the French and Spanijh priva- 

 teers intended to fail up the river, and to at- 

 tempt a landing. It ftands, according to the 

 accounts of the late Rev. Mr. Tranbergy 

 on the fame fpot, where the Swedes had 

 built theirs. It is remarkable, that on 

 working in the ground this fummer, to 

 make this redoubt, an old Swedifi filver coin 

 of Queen Chrifiina, not quite fo big as a 

 (hilling was found at the depth of a yard, 

 among fome other things. The Rev. Mr. 

 Tranberg afterwards prefented me with it. 

 On one fide were the arms of the houfe of 

 TFafa with the infcription : CHRISTINA. 

 D. G. DE. RE. SVE. that is, Chrijiina, by 

 the grace of God, eleSied ^een of Sweden-, and 

 near this the year of our Lord 1633. On 

 the reverfe were thefe words : MONETA 

 NOVA REGNI SVEC. or, a new coin of 

 the kingdom of Sweden. At the fame time a 

 number of old iron tools^ fuch as axes, 

 fhovels, and the like, were difcovered. 

 The redoubt, that is now ereded, confifts 



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