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made ufe of as meadows. On them the 

 Water-beeches (Plat anus occidentalism Linn.) 

 were planted in great numbers on both (ides 

 the road, quite clofe together : thele in 

 fummer afford a pleafant fhade, en ac- 

 count of the abundance and lize of their 

 leaves, and make the road extremely de- 

 lightful, as it refembles a fine {hady walk. 

 The Delaware has nearly the fame breadth 

 here, which it has near Philadelphia. Near 

 the place where the ferry is to be met with, 

 feveral pretty houfes were built on both 

 fides, where travellers might get all kinds 

 of refrefhment. On our journey from Pen- 

 fyhania to New Jerfey, we were brought 

 over the Delaware in a ferry belonging to, 

 and kept in repair by the Penfylvania-men ; 

 but on our return we were obliged to take 

 the ferry belonging to the New Jerfey fide. 

 As foon as we had croffed the river, we 

 were in a different province, for the Dela^ 

 ware makes the divifion between Penfyha- 

 nia and New Jerfeyy fo that every thing to 

 the weft of it belongs to the former, and 

 all to the eaft, to the latter province. Both 

 thefe provinces h^ve in moft things differ- 

 ent laws, and their peculiar coin. 



We now purfued our journey further, 

 and foon obferved that the country on this 

 fide appeared very different from that on 



the 



