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and, now and then, a good houfe built of 

 ftone. The river now decreafed vifibly in 

 breadth. About three o'clock this after- 

 noon we parTed Burlington. 



Burlington, the chief town in the 

 province of New 'Jerfey, and the refidence 

 of the governor, is but a fmall town, about 

 twenty miles from Philadelphia, on the 

 eaftern fide of the Delaware. The houfes 

 were chiefly built of flone, though they 

 flood far diftant from each other. The 

 town has a good fituation, fince mips of 

 confiderable burden can fail clofe up to it : 

 but Philadelphia prevents its carrying on an 

 extenfive trade -, for the proprietors of that 

 place * have granted it great immunities, by 

 which it is increafed fo as to fw allow all 

 the trade of the adjacent towns. The 

 houfe of the governor at Burlington is but a 

 fmall one : it is built of ftone, clofe by the 

 river fide, and is the nrft building in the 

 town as you come from Philadelphia. It is 

 obferved, that about the full moons, when 

 the tides are higheft, and the high water at 

 Cape Hinlopen comes at nine o'clock in the 

 morning, it will be at Chefter, on the river 

 Delaware, about ten minutes after one 

 o'clock ; at Philadelphia, about ten mi- 

 nutes after two o'clock , and at Burling- 



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* William Pen, Efq; and his heirs after him. 



