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hilly, well-cultivated country, and through some unimportant 
places to a tolerably high mountain, called Schooley’s Mountain, 
where there is a mineral spring much frequented in summer. 
We afterwards came to a neat place in a handsome valley, called 
German Valley; then passing through Chester and Mondham, 
also handsome places, we came to Morristown. All these places 
in New Jersey are well located, containing generally brick and 
some large houses; the streets are wide, planted with poplars, 
and in the centre of each place is a roomy square opening, in the 
midst of which stands a high pole, whence the national flag waves 
on public days. Churches also are not wanting; I saw four in 
Morristown, which appears to contain about one thousand inhabi¬ 
tants. The churches have here generally high and white steeples, 
so that they may be seen at a considerable distance. We came 
also through a small place, Springfield, and then reached Eliza¬ 
bethtown, a very handsome place, surrounded with neat country- 
seats, the greater part of which belong to rich inhabitants of New 
York. After a short delay we left Elizabethtown, rode two miles 
farther through a meadow ground, much like Holland, and reach¬ 
ed a bay. Here we left the stage, and went on board the steam¬ 
boat Bellona, being about fourteen miles distant from New York. 
This bay is properly an inland lake, and is called Newark bay, 
after a town on it of the same name. It receives its water from 
two streams, Passaic and Hackensack, and communicates with 
the sea towards the south through Staten Island sound, and on 
the east with the bay of New York through the channel of Castle- 
ton, through which we also passed. We had on the left a cape 
belonging to New Jersey, and on the right Staten Island belong¬ 
ing to New York. As it was narrow here we could see with 
great ease the handsome country-seats and gardens on both shores. 
But we enjoyed the handsomest and most unexpected sight, as 
we entered the bay of New York. On the right was the beautiful 
shore of Staten Island with Castleton, then the quarantine, where, 
besides several other vessels, lay a Swedish line-of-battle ship, 
which being sold to the Colombian government, remained here 
on account of some difficulties in the payment; beyond the Nar¬ 
rows the sea, then Fort La Fayette; we had in front of us the 
shore of Long Island, and on the left the bay of New York, with 
the forts on Governor’s and Bedlow’s Island, and between in 
the back ground the city of New York, with its pointed spires 
and forest of masts, in the North and East rivers. This sight is 
wonderfully beautiful, and well deserves to be represented as a 
panorama. Arrived in. the bay, we turned to the left, passed the 
above-mentioned fortified islands, left Bedlow’s island and the 
slightly fortified Ellis’s island, passed Castle-garden, and landed 
from the North river at seven o’clock in the evening. I immediately 
