took an excursion on the Yeraey side, but ob- 

 served nothing new. I ascended two very steep 

 rocks below Easton near the river, which con- 

 vinced me so much more in my Idea which I had 

 made before, of the River Delaware having been 

 of a much larger size in former ages then it is 

 now. The bed of the river is plainly seen, & the 

 fields on the east side are covered with rounted 

 stones, similar to a river getting dry ; those fields 

 may extend about half a mile, & in some places 

 a mile & a half, & are about from 20. to 40. feet 

 higher than the highest fresh now showing. The 

 rocks I had ascended seem to have been Islands 

 nearly in the middle of the old river, & have all 

 the signs of their sides having been washed up- 

 wards of 50. feet high from the water, if not a 

 great deal more. These rocks are covered with 

 ferns of the common sorts, & shrubby trees com- 

 mon to this neighborhood. The view fivm those 

 rocks is most charming — the neat town of Easton 

 with its surrounding hills, the junction of the 

 Lehigh with the Delaware, on the last of which 

 an elegant new bridge has been erected on the 

 same plan as the one over the Schuylkill at Phil- 

 ada. & the view of the distant mountains over all 

 this is most charming. 



31. Early this morning I left Easton, the 

 weather very sultry & warm ; by the time I came 

 to Richmond, about 13. m. from Easton where I 

 took dinner I was overtaken by a thunder shower, 

 which continued very severe tor two or three 

 hours, & afterwards turned into a drizling rain ; 

 being prevented so long, from going on & having 

 about 13 or 14. m. to travel to come to the place 



