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will suflSce for all. Aaron Learning gives an account of his journey 

 to Amboy.in 1759, on horseback, as follows:* 



"March 3d. Set out from home; lodged at Tarkil; arrived at 

 Philadelphia on the 5th. On the 6th, rid to Burlington. 7th. 

 Extreme cold; rid to Crosswicks, and joined company with Mr. 

 Miller ; rid to Cranberry, where we overtook Messrs. Hancock, 

 Smith, and Clement, (of Salem) who had laid up all day by reason 

 of the cold. 8th. Got to Amboy. 17th. Had the honor to dine 

 with his excellency governor Bernard, with more of the members 

 of the house. It was a plentiful table, but nothing very extraor- 

 dinary. The cheese he said was a Gloucestershire cheese ; was a 

 present to him, and said that it weighed 105 pounds when he first 

 had it. He says its the collected milk of a whole village that 

 makes these cheeses, each one measuring in their milk, and taking 

 its value in cheese. 



" 19th. Left Amboy for home. 20th. Rid to Cranberry, and 

 lodged at Dr. Stites'. 25th. Arrived home." 



In July, 1761, he attended the Assembly at Burlington on the 

 6th, and broke up on the 8th, and says : " July 9th. I set out home- 

 ward. 11th. Got home, having been extremely unwell, occasioned 

 by the excessive heat. Almost ever since I went away, the 5th, 

 6th, 7th, and 8th, were the hottest days by abundance that ever I 

 was acquainted with." 



" Sept. 3d. A rain fell five inches on a level. The lower end of 

 Cape May has been so dry that there will not be but one-third of a 

 crop of corn — here it is wet enough the whole season." 



" 14th. Went a fishing, and caught thirty-nine sheepshead." 



It has not been necessary to enter into any disquisition of the 

 soil, productions, geological aspect of the county, or the general 

 statistics thereof, which are so ably set forth in the report, to which 

 this is but an accompaniment. 



In justice to this sketch of Cape May, in which an attemj t has 



* A. Learning's Mumoira. 



