'Penfyhania, Philadelphia, 379 



It is remarkable, that both in the year 

 1728, and in the prefent, when fo many 

 people died at Penns neck, few died at 

 Raccoon y though the two places are near 

 each other, and feem to have the fame foil 

 and climate. But there is this difference 

 that Penn's neck lies remarkably low, and 

 Raccoon pretty high. The people in the 

 former place have fettled between marfhes 

 and fwamps, in which the water ftagnates 

 and putrifies ; and moft of thefe places are 

 covered with trees, by which means the 

 wet is fhut up ftill more, and near fuch 

 marfhes, are the houfes. Laftly the water 

 at Penn% neck is not reckoned fo good as 

 that in Raccoon^ but has fome tafte. It 

 likewife becomes brackilh in feveral little 

 rivers when the Delaware during the tide 

 rifes very high, and runs up into them. On 

 the banks of thefe rivulets live many of 

 the Swedes, and take water for common 

 ufe from them. 



December the 3d. This morning I fet 

 out for Philadelphia, where I arrived in the 

 evening. 



Wild grapes are very abundant in the 

 woods, and of various kinds -, a fpecies of 

 them which are remarkable for their fize, 

 grow in the marfhes, and are greedily eaten 

 by the Raccoon : they are therefore called 



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