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filk, if properly attended to, doubtlefs would flouriflt 
very well. The county of SulFex, befides producing a 
conliderable quantity of grain, particularly of Indian corn, 
poflelFes excellent grazing lands. This county alfo ex¬ 
ports large quantities of lumber, obtained chiefly from 
«n extenfive fwamp, called the Indiun-river or Cyprefs- 
Iwamp, lying partly within this date, and partly in the 
date of Maryland. This niorafs extends Fix miles from 
eaft to weft, and nearly twelve from north to fouth, in¬ 
cluding an area of nearly fifty thoufand acres of land. 
The whole of this fwarnp is a high and level bafon, very 
wet, though undoubtedly the higheft land between the 
fea and the bay, whence the Pokomolce defcends on one 
fide, and Indian-river and St. Martin’s on the other. 
This Fwamp contains a great variety of plants, trees, 
wild beads, birds, and reptiles. 
Almoft the whole of the foreign exports of Delaware 
are from Wilmington : the trade from this ftate to Phi¬ 
ladelphia is great, being the principal fource whence that 
city draws its ftaple commodities. No lefs than 265,000 
barrelsof flour, 300,ooobulhelsof wheat, 170,000bulhels 
of Indian corn, befides barley, oats, flax-feed, paper, flit 
iron, fnuff, falted provifions, &c. to a very confiderable 
amount, are annually fent from the waters of the Dela¬ 
ware ftate; of which the Chriftiana is by far the mod 
jJ-oducfive, and probably as many times as much fo as 
any other creek or river of like magnitude in the union, 
245,000 barrels of flour, and other articles, to the amount" 
of 80,000 dollars more, being exported from this creek; of 
which, to the value of 550,000 dollars, are manufactured 
on its northern bank,' within two or three miles of the 
navigation. The legiflature, in January 1796, patted an 
act to create a fund for the eftablilhment of fchools 
throughout this ftate. Befides the wheat and flour trade, 
this ftate exports lumber and various other articles. The 
amount of exports from the year ending September 30, 
X791, was 119,878 dollars, 93 cents; ditto 1792, 133^972 
dollars, 27 cents ; ditto 1793, 93,559 dollars, 45 cents ; 
ditto 1794, 207,985 dollars, 33 cents; ditto 1795, 158,041 
dollars, 21 cents. 
In this ftate there is a variety of religious denomina¬ 
tions. Of the prefbyterian fed, there are twenty-four 
churches; of the epifcopnl, fourteen ; of the baptill, le¬ 
vel! ; of the quakers, four; methodifts, a confiderable 
number, efpecially in the two lower counties of Kent 
and Sulfex ; the number of their churches is not exadly 
afcertained. Befides thefe there is a Swedifh church at 
Wilmington, which is one of the oldeft churches in the 
United States. 
There are few minerals in this ftate, except iron; large 
quantities of bog iron ore, very fit for callings, are found 
in SulFex county, among the branches of Nanticoke river. 
Before the revolution this ore was worked to a great 
amount; but this bufinefs has fince declined. Settle¬ 
ments were made here by the Dutch about 1623, and by 
the Swedes about the year 1627. Their fettlements were 
•comprehended in the grant to the duke of York; and 
William Penn united them to his government by pur- 
chafe. They were afterwards feparated, in fome meafure, 
from Pennfylvania, and denominated the Three Lower 
Counties. They had their own afiemblies, but the gover¬ 
nor of Pennfylvania ufed to attend, as he did in his own 
proper government. At the late revolution, the three 
counties were erefted into one of the legiflative Hates. 
DELAWA'RE, a county of the American States, in 
Pennfylvania,. fouth-weft of Philadelphia county, on De¬ 
laware river. It is about twenty-one miles in length, and 
fifteen in breadth, containing 115,200 acres, and fubdi- 
vided into nineteen townfhips, the chief of which is Chei- 
ter. The lands bordering on the Delaware are low, and 
afford excellent meadow and pafturage ; and are guarded 
from inundations by mounds of earth or dykes, which are 
(ometunes broken down by extraordinary frelhes in the 
river. If this happens before cutting the grafs, the crop 
of hay is loft for that feafon, and the reparation of the 
breaches is expensive to the proprietors'. Great numbers 
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of ca ttle arc- brought here from the weftern parts of Vir¬ 
ginia and North Carolina, to be fattened for fupplying 
the Philadelphia market. 
DELAWA'RE, a county of the American States, in 
the ftate of New York, on "the head waters of Delaware 
river, taken from Otfego county. 
DELAWA'RE, a townlhip of the American States, 
in Northampton county, Pennfylvania. 
DELAWA'RE, a town of the American States, in 
King William’s county, Virginia, fituated cn the broad 
peninfula formed by the conflux of the Pamunky and 
Mattapony. The united ftream thence a (Fumes the name of 
York river: twenty miles north-by-weft of Williamftnirg. 
DELAWA'RE, a bay of North America, fi.xty miles 
long, from the cape to the entrance of the river, at Bom- 
bay-hook, and occupies a fpace of about 630,000 acres; 
fo wide in fome parts that a (hip in the middle of it can¬ 
not be leen from the land. It opens into the Atlantic 
north-weft and fouth-eaft, between Cape Hcnlopen on the 
right, and Cape May on the left. Thefe capes are eigh¬ 
teen or twenty miles apart. 
DELAWA'RE, a river of North America,, called 
Chihohocki by the aboriginals, and in an old Nurenberg 
map is named Zuydt river. It rifes by two principal’ 
branches in New York ftate; the northernmoft of which, 
called the Mohawk’s or Cookqugo branch, rifes in lake - 
Uftayantho, lat. 42. 25. and takes a fouth-weft courfe, 
and turning fouth-eaftwardly, it crofles the Pennfylvania 
line in lat. 42 : about Feven miles from thence,.it receives 
the Popachton branch from the north-eaft, which rifes in 
the Kaats-kill mountains. Thence it runs fouthwardly, 
until it ftrikes the north-weft corner of New Jerfey, in 
lat. 41. 24. and then paffes off to the fea through Dela¬ 
ware bay, having New Jerfey eaft, and Pennfylvania and 
Delaware weft. The bay and river are navigable from 
the fea up to the great or lower falls at Trenton, 155 
miles; and are accommodated with buoys and piers for 
the direction and fafety of ve(Fels. A 74-gun (flip may 
go up to Philadelphia, 120 miles by the channel from 
the fea. The diftance acrofs the land, in a fouth-eaft 
courfe, to New Jerfey couft, is but fixty miles. Sloops 
go thirty-five miles above Philadelphia, to Trenton falls; 
boats that carry eight or nine tons, 100 miles farther; 
and Indian canoes 150 miles, except feveral fmall falls 
or portages. The congrefs have it in contemplation to 
conneft the waters of Chefapeak bay with thofe of Dela¬ 
ware river, by four different canals, viz. Elk river with 
Chriftiana creek; Broad creek, another branch, with Red- 
lion creek ; Bohemia, a third branch of the Elk, with 
Apequinemy creek; and Chefter river with Duck creek; 
DELAWA'RE, a fmall river of Eaft Florida See 
Charlotte Haven, vol. iv. p. 117. 
DELAWA'RES, an Indian nation formerly numerous 
and powerful, and who polfelfed part of Pennfylvania; 
New Jerfey, and New York. This name was doubtlefs- 
given them by the Europeans ; for they call themfelves 
Lennilenape, that is, Indian men ; or Woapanachky; 
which fignifies a people living towards the riling fun. 
They now refide about half-w'ay between lake Eric and 
Ohio river. They are an ingenious and intelligent people ; 
and, like the Six Nations, are celebrated for their cou- 
rage, peaceable difpofition, and powerful alliances. Ar- 
moft all the neighbouring nations are in league with 
them, efpecially the Mahikan, Shawanves, Cherokees-, 
TwLchtvvees, Wawiachtanos, Kikapus, Mofhkos, Tuck- 
achfhas, Chippeways, Ottawas, Putewoatamies, and Kaf- 
kalkias. The Delawares were lately hoftile, but made 
peace with the United States in 1795, and ceded fome 
lands. The United States, on the other hand,, have era. 
gaged to pay them in goods, to the value of one thoufand 
dollars a-year for ever. Twenty years ago, the Dela¬ 
wares could fitrnifh fix hundred warriors; but their 
number is confiderably decreafed by w’ar fince that time. 
To DELA'Y, v. a. [from delayer , Fr.] To defer ; to 
put off.—And when the people law that Mofes delayed 
fo come down out of the mcunt ; the people gathered 
themitlyes 
