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people, newspapers and sheet almanacs, in American German, 
The difference is already perceptible in the state of Pennsyl¬ 
vania which exists between the southern and northern states in 
the education of the lower classes: it is said to be still more 
striking in the southern states. They particularly complain that 
the former German farmers did not send their children to school 
at all; lately, however, they have become more ambitious, and 
attend the schools, because the legislature of Pennsylvania has 
passed a law, that no citizen shall sit on a jury unless he can read 
and write the English language. The German farmers consider 
it an honour to be called upon a jury, but find themselves de¬ 
prived of that honour on account of their ignorance. They now, 
therefore, have their sons instructed in English. I saw in the 
woods two small octagonal houses, and was informed that they 
were schools, which, however, were never frequented. 
In many villages where you see handsome brick buildings, 
stables, and barns, the school is a simple log-house, much worse 
than the school-houses I have seen among the Indians. There is 
no want of churches, mostly Lutheran, some Calvinist, Quaker 
meeting-houses, Anabaptists, and Menonists. Between Quaker- 
town and Bethlehem, the former called so on account of its hav¬ 
ing been originally settled by that sect, but now inhabited mostly 
by Germans, there is a parish of Swiss Menonists, which they call 
here Dunkards, because the men let their beards grow. As we 
passed through, there happened to be the funeral of a young girl, 
and almost the whole congregation followed the coffin. Between 
four and five o’clock, P. M. we reached Bethlehem, and staid in 
Bishop’s tavern, which was very cleanly, and well managed. 
Bethlehem is very handsomely situated, partly in a valley, and 
partly on a hill near the river Lehigh, into which empties the Ma- 
nokesy brook. Very near the town there is a wooden bridge 
over the river, which was built in the year 1791, and rests upon 
three stone pillars, and over the brook there is a newly-built stone 
bridge of two arches. The moment you behold Bethlehem, you 
are pleased with it: opposite the town, on the right bank of the 
Lehigh, are rather high mountains, overgrown with wood. The 
brick houses of the town are situated amphitheatrically; above all 
the houses, you see the church with a small steeple, and the 
whole is crowned by the burying-place, which lies upon a hill, 
and is planted with lombardy poplars. The fields around the 
town are excellently cultivated, and the landscape is bounded by 
the Blue Mountains, eighteen miles distant, a long range of 
mountains with no one distinct summit, but with some openings 
through. The streets in Bethlehem are not paved, but planted 
with poplars, and provided with broad brick side-walks; the 
houses are built either of blue limestone or of brick. The greatest 
