TRAVELS 
THROUGH THE STATES OP 
NORTH AMERICA, 
LETTER I. 
Arrival on the Coast of America .— Trees the 
first Object visible.—Description of the Bay 
and River of Delaware.—Passengers bound 
for Philadelphia not suffered to land till ex¬ 
amined by the Health Officers—Arrival at 
Philadelphia.—Poor Appearance of the City 
from the Water.—Plan of the City .—- 
Wharfs .— Public and private Buildings 
Some Account of the Hospital , and of the 
Gaol. 
MY DEAR SIR, Philadelphia, November, \7Q5. \ 
OUR passage across the Atlantic was dis¬ 
agreeable in the extreme. The weather 
for the most part was bad, and calms and 
heavy adverse gales so frequently retarded 
our progress to the westward, that it was 
not until the fifty-ninth day from that on 
which we left Ireland, that we discovered the 
American coast. I shall not attempt to de¬ 
scribe Ahe joy which the sight of land, a sight 
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