Travels Through North America 



snake killed at Surinam twelve feet long; and several 

 Northern Indian habits made of furs and skins. 

 At a small distance from the stadt-house, there is 

 another fine library, consisting of a very valuable 

 and chosen collection of books, left by a Mr. Logan; 

 they are chiefly in the learned languages.* Near 

 this there is also a noble hospital for lunatics, and 

 other sick persons. Besides these buildings, there 

 are spacious barracks for 17 or 1800 men; a good 

 assembly-room belonging to the society of Free 

 Masons; and eight or ten places of religious worship; 

 viz. two churches, three Quaker meeting-houses, 

 two Presbyterian ditto, one Lutheran church, one 

 Dutch Calvinist ditto, one Swedish ditto, one Romish 

 chapel, one Anabaptist meeting-house, one Mora- 

 vian ditto: there is also an academy or college, origi- 

 nally built for a tabernacle for Mr. Whitefield. At 

 the south end of the town, upon the river, there is a 

 battery mounting thirty guns, but it is in a state of 

 decay. It was designed to be a check upon pri- 

 vateers. These, with a few alms-houses, and a 

 school-house belonging to the Quakers, are the chief 

 public buildings in Philadelphia. The city is in a 

 very flourishing state, and inhabited by merchants, 

 artists, tradesmen, and persons of all occupations. 

 There is a public market held twice a week, upon 

 Wednesday and Saturday, alrpost equal to that of 

 Leadenhall, and a tolerable one every day besides. 

 * See Note IX. 



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