2;2& OSiober 1748. 



rock, fo big, that they would have requi-; 

 red three men to roll them down. But 

 befides thefe there were few great ftones in 

 the country J for moft of thofe which we 

 faw, could eafily be lifted up by a fingle 

 man. In another place we perceived a 

 number of little round pebbles, but we did 

 not meet with either mountains or rocks. 



About noon we arrived at New Briin- 

 fwick, a pretty little town in the province 

 oi New Jerfey, in a valley on the weft fide 

 of the river Rareton ; on account of its low 

 fituation, it cannot be feen (coming froni 

 Penfyhania) before you get to the top of the 

 hill, which is quite clofe up to it : the 

 town extends north and fouth along the 

 river. The German inhabitants have two 

 churches, one of ftone and the other of 

 wood J the Englijh church is of the latter 

 kind, but the prelbyterians were build- 

 ing one of ftone : the town houfe makes 

 likewife a pretty good appearance. Some of 

 the other houfes are built of bricks^ but 

 moft of them are made either wholly of 

 wood, or of bricks and wood ; the wooden 

 houfes are not made of ftrong timber, but 

 merely of boards or planks, which are 

 within joined by laths : fuch houfes as 

 Gonfift of both wood and bricks, have only 

 the wall towards the ftreet of bricks, all the 

 other fides being merely of planks. This 



peculiar 



