% TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA: 
that at once relieved the eye fi/om the unin¬ 
teresting and wearisome view of sky and water, 
and that afforded to each individual a speedy 
prospect of delivery from the narrow confines 
of a small trading vessel, diffused amongst the 
passengers.. You, who have yourself made 
a long voyage, can best imagine what it must 
have been. 
The first objects, which meet the eye on 
approaching the American coast, south of 
New York, are the tops of'trees, with which 
the shore is thickly covered to the very edge 
of the water. These, at a distance, have the 
appearance of small islands; but as you draw/ 
nearer they are seen to unite; and the tall 
forest rising gradually out of the ocean, at last 
presents itself in all its majesty to your view. 
The land which we made was situated very 
near to the bay of Delaware, and before noon 
we passed between the capes Henlopen and 
May, which guard the entrance of the bay. 
The capes are only eighteen miles apart, but 
within them the bay expands to the breadth 
of thirty miles. It afterwards becomes gra¬ 
dually narrower, until it is lost in the river 
of the same name, at Bombay Hook, seven 
leagues distant from fhe Atlantic. The river 
Delaware, at this place, is about six miles 
wide ; at Reedy Island, twenty miles higher 
up, it is three miles wide; and at 
Philadelphia* 
