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building in this town, which formerly served as the house for the 
brethren, is now occupied as a young ladies boarding-school. 
There is also here an arched market-place, where butcher’s meat 
is sold. On the place where Bishop’s tavern now stands, not long 
ago stood a little frame building, which was built at the time 
Bethlehem was founded by Count Zinzendorf. The town has 
about seven hundred inhabitants, mostly tradesmen and mer¬ 
chants. The clergy consists of Bishop Huffel and the two preach¬ 
ers, Messrs. Seidel and Von Schweinitz; the latter is the great 
grandson of Count Zinzendorf, he was just absent on a voyage to 
Germany, where he met the general synod in Herrenhut. 
One of the Messrs. Rice introduced me into the tavern, and 
gave notice to the clergy of my arrival; shortly after, I received 
a visit from Mr. Seidel, a Saxon by birth, who has resided nine¬ 
teen years in the United States. I found him a very friendly and 
pleasant gentleman, and had a long conversation with him. I 
also met with an old man from Eisenach, by the name of Stickel, 
who came to this country as a surgeon with the Hessians, and 
for some years past had taken up his residence in this tavern, 
where he acts as cicerone to the strangers. 
Next morning I received another visit from parson Seidel, 
and went with him to Bishop Huffel ; the bishop is a man of 
about sixty years of age, also a Saxon, and a very friendly man, 
who has travelled much and speaks pleasantly. He had a very 
handsome collection of minerals, particularly of American mar¬ 
bles; Mr. Seidel resides with him in the oldest dwelling of the 
town, which has quite the appearance of the house of a country 
parson in Germany, and has even German locks and bolts to it; 
in this house is a large hall, which formerly served the parishes 
a church until the church was finished. I visited the church, 
escorted by the two divines ; the arrangements are quite simple, 
a white hall with benches, and a somewhat higher seat for the 
clergy, with a table before it; the church has a very fine organ, 
which was made at New York. The bishop, who is a good 
performer on the piano, had the goodness to play for me on the 
organ. From the steeple of the church is a handsome prospect 
of the surrounding neighbourhood, the Lehigh, the mountains 
of the same name, and the Blue Mountains. In the church build¬ 
ing, next to the large hall, are several chambers, where they 
formerly kept school, before the new school was built, but now 
the elders hold their conferences in it, and the smaller meetings 
of the parish. By building this new church, the parish incurred 
a debt; the building, however, is not very tasty. The burying 
place of the congregation is upon a small hill, and resembles a 
garden planted with trees. The graves are in rows, a simple 
stone lying on each, containing the name, birth, and time of 
