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with handsome walks, and a natural waterfall of forty feet. I ob¬ 
served in the house a portrait of General Montgomery, besides 
a great number of family portraits, which the Americans seem to 
value highly. According to this painting he must have been a 
very handsome man. At four o’clock in the afternoon we left 
our friendly landlord and embarked in the steam-boat Olive 
Branch, belonging to the Livingston family for New York, where 
we arrived next morning at six o’clock. 
During the last day of my stay at New York, I received two 
interesting visits, one from the Prussian consul at Washington, 
Mr. Niederstetter, and the other from a Piedmontese count, 
Charles Vidua, who has made several journeys through Scandi¬ 
navia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, &c. and is now 
travelling through America. Afterwards I paid a few farewell 
visits. At Mr. Eddy’s I found a whole society of Quakers, men 
and women; they took much pains to convince me of the excel¬ 
lence of their sect, and seemed not disinclined to*adopt me as 
one of their members; at least they desired me to read the letter 
of an English sea-captain, who resigned his situation as a captain 
in the British navy, and turned Quaker. Mr. Eddy gave me 
likewise Barclay’s Apology for the Quakers, in German, to read 
and reflect upon. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Journey to Philadelphia.—Stay in that place.—Bethlehem 
and Nazareth . 
ON the 10th of October we left the city of New York in the 
steam-boat Thistle, which conveyed us to New Brunswick, 
through a thick fog which lasted all day. For several days past 
we had smoky, warm weather, which was ascribed to the burn¬ 
ing of a forest in the state of Maine. 
The shores of New Jersey seemed flat and swampy, resembling 
very much the Dutch banks. As we approached New Bruns¬ 
wick, the banks of the Raritan become higher. On our arrival, 
eight stages were already waiting for us, having each four horses, 
and the passengers were so numerous that each stage carried from 
eight to nine persons; we had hardly time to have our baggage 
packed, and consequently could see nothing of the neighbour¬ 
hood. We continued our journey through New Brunswick, ap¬ 
parently a busy and well built place, thirty miles by land to Tren- 
