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enough, in spite of his strange religious antics, to win 

 what he wanted. 



He lost no time, once the patent was his, but sent 

 three commissioners at once, giving them minute in- 

 structions about each detail. A site by the river was 

 to be selected for a town, and this was to be laid out 

 immediately. "Pitch upon the very middle of the 

 Piatt," he further says, "where the Towne of line of 

 Houses is to be laid or run facing the Harbour and 

 great River for the scituation of my house, and let it 

 be not the tenth part of the Towne, as the Conditions 

 say (viz.) yt out of every hundred Thousand Acres 

 shall be reserved to me Ten, But I shall be contented 

 w* less than a thirtyeth part. . . . Let every 

 house be placed, if the Person pleases, in ye middle 

 of its platt as to the breadth way of it, that so there 

 may be ground on each side, for Gardens, or Orchards 

 or feilds, yt it may be a greene Country Towne, w"^ 

 will never be burnt and will allwayes be wholesome." 



In another year he came himself, arriving the first 

 of November, according to Pastorius. Of this ar- 

 rival also the latter writes, "Even while they were yet 

 far from the land where there was wafted to them as 

 delightful a fragrance as if it came from a freshly blos- 

 soming garden." Invariably the breath of flowers! 



In his description of his patent, which he sent to 

 England the next year — 1683 — Penn gives a list of 



