§f> TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA ! 
from the great influx into the city of per¬ 
sons of a different persuasion. Belonging to 
the Quakers there are five places for public wor¬ 
ship ; to the Presbyterians and Seceders six ; 
to the English Episcopalians three; to Ger¬ 
man Lutherans two ; to the Roman Catholics 
four; and one respectively to the Swedish 
Lutherans, Moravians, Baptists, Universal 
Baptists, Methodists, and Jews. On a Sun¬ 
day every citizen appears well dressed ; the 
lower classes of the people in particular are 
remarkably well clothed. This is a great 
day also for little excursions into the coun¬ 
try. 
The carriages made use of in Philadelphia 
consist of coaches, chariots, chaises, coachees, 
and light waggons, the greater part of which 
are built in Philadelphia. The equipages of 
a few individuals are extremely ostentatious ; 
nor does there appear in any that neatness 
and elegance which might be expected 
amongst a set of people that are desirous of 
imitating the fashions of England, and that 
are continually getting models over from that 
country. The coachee is a carriage peculiar, 
I believe, to America ; the body of it is rather 
longer than that of a coach, but of the same 
shape. In the front it is left quite open down 
to the bottom, and the driver sits on a bench 
imder the roof of the carriage. There ar$ 
