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ftate ; numerous mills are erected for this purpofe; and 
ftream, three miles from the creek cn 
which they ftand, ha 
Philadelphia, are moft extolled, as capable of grinding an- 
000 bufhels, though, froza collateral circum- 
and the water adjoining satiie Co) = 18 ee deep 
to admit veffels of twice the a ns of wel 
contrived machinery the veffels a are aa ad inlet with 
furprizing aes 
exports lumber, an 
exports for the. aes tdi Se . 
dollars 93 cents; In 1792, d 
eae 207, oh dollars 33 cent s.; and in 1801, 440, col 
Te ie ftate of Delaware, there 1s a variety of ft 
denominations; of eg Mie there are 24 churches ; 
Epifcopalians, I43 0 ptifts, 7; and of Methodifts, a 
confiderable numb-r, ecu in the two lower counties 
of Kent and Suffex. t Wilmington there is a Swedifh 
church, one of the oldeft in the United States. 
Of minerals there are few in ae ftate, except iron. Wheat 
lumber are its ftaple commodities. ve alreacy 
oneal feveral other ae - its produce aid macufac- 
the 
vernment by purchafe. They were afterwards fe parated, 
in fome méafure, from Pennfylvania, and denominated, the 
*© Three Lower Counties.”? They had their own affemblies; 
but the governor of Pennfylvania ufed to attend, as he did 
At the late revolution, the 
nto a fovereign ftate, and have 
eftablifhid a a cars a rn Morfe. 
unty, a be! of Pennfylvania, S.W. 
- a win ee county, © e Delaware river; about 21 
ong, an ead, emi 
fabaivided into 21 townthips, the 
The uumber of mbabitante i is 12,809. 
on the Delaware are low, 
pafturage; and are seated fon inundations by mounds of 
earth or dykes, which are fometimes b down by extra- 
ordinary frefhes in the river, to the great imeee and fub- 
equent expence of the proprietore. lai numbers of cattle 
are brought hither from the weftern parts of inja, and 
N. Carolina, to be fattened for aes the Philadelphia 
market. 
DeLvaware, “acounty in New-York, on the head-waters 
of anes river, containing 21,700 inhabita 
ELAWARE, a townfhip in Wayne county, Pennfylvania, 
including 381 a eareres 
Bay 3 Ri The bay is 60 miles long, 
0 the entrance of a iver, at 
e 
o miles apart. 
Delaware river was called Chihohocki “ fie aboriginals, 
and in an old Nurcmberg map is named Zuydt river. It 
rifes by two- principal branches in the fate of New York 5. 
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2 
DEL 
the northernmoft of which, called the Mohawk’s or Cook» 
quago branch, rifes in ie UNfayanthe, Jat 
takes a S.W. courfe, and turning foach. ealterly, crofles the 
Pennly!vania line in lat. 42°; 
it receives the Popachton branch from the N. E:, 
inthe Kaat’s-Iill monntains. Thence it runs fouthwardly, 
until i it touches tne N.W. corner of New 
y E. and Pennfylvania and Dalene W. 
*he aya mee river are navigable from the fea to the great or 
lower falls at d are accommodated 
the Lik, with Apoquinemy creek 5 and Chefter river with 
Duck creek. Morfe. 
aon a {mall river of Eaft Florida. 
LAWARE, a township in the county of Suffolk, Upper 
Canada, lying on the E. fide of the river Thames, in the 
plains above the Delaware village of Indians. 
DELAWARES, an Indian nation, formerly numerous 
and powerful, who poffeffed ial of Pennfylvania, New 
Lderkey and New Yo rk. This n 
d Ohio ey are 
nious and intelligent people 3 3 and, ‘ike ie Six 
celebrated for their courage, peaceable difpofition, ad 
powerful alliances. Almoft all the se Weel a are | 
in league with them, efpecially the Mahikun, Shawanees, 
herokees, T'wichtwees, Wawiachtanos, epee Mofh- 
kos, Tuckachthas, Chippeways, Ottawas, Putiwoatamies, 
and Kafkakias. The Del wares, who were hoftile, made 
peace with the United States in 1795, and ceded fome lands. 
The Un 
merly the Dae coal fur 00 warriors 5 
seaa has been lately eontayabie decreafed by war. 
) 
DELBRUCK, a {mall town of the kingdom te 
of We 
phalia. It formerly belonged to the bifho = of Pader- 
born ; and is fituated 12 miles W. . - erbor 
DEL CREDERE, Commiffion of, it mmerce, an under 
taking by an infurance-broker, tor an “ational premium 
to infure his principal againft the contingency of the failure 
of the under-writer. 1 Term Rep. 112. 
N, in Geography, a {mall town of the kingdom 
of Holland, in the department of Overyffel. 
DELE , a {mall town of the canton of the Grifons, 
in the Helvetic republic, fituated in ‘the Veltlin, in the 
Venetians in 1434. D 
ELECITO, a town 
Capitanata; 10 miles S.S. nae a 
DELEGATES, certain hare elegated, or appointed 
by the king’s commiffion, under the great: feal, to-fit upon 
an 
prac eB, in ae province of 
