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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 
Platt,” 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 th 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 ch 
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 
