JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE. Si 
LETTER III. 
Journey to Baltimore.—Description of the Coun¬ 
try about Philadelphia.—Floating Bridges 
over Schuylkill , how constructed.—Mills in 
Brandy-wine Creek.—Improvement in the 
Machinery of Flour Mills in America .— 
Town of Wilmington.—Long Houses.—-Bad 
Roads—Fine Prospects.—How relished by 
AmericansTaverns.—Susquehannah Ri¬ 
ver.—Town of Baltimore.—Plan of the 
Town. — Harbour. *— Public and private 
Buildings. — Inhabitants.—Country between 
Baltimore and Washington.—Execrable 
Roads . 
jSlY DEAR SIR, Washington, November. 
ON the 16th of November, I left Philadel¬ 
phia for Baltimore. The only mode of 
conveyance which offers for a traveller, who 
is not provided with his own horses or carriage, 
is the public stage waggon ; it is possible, 
indeed, to procure a private carriage at Phi¬ 
ladelphia, to go on to Baltimore, for which 
a great price is always demanded ,* but there 
is no such thing as hiring a carriage or horses 
from stage to stage. The country about Phi¬ 
ladelphia is well cultivated, audit abounds with 
