58 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA : 
feany, the number of houses is increasing as fast 
as at New York ; at present there are upwards 
of eleven hundred ; and in Hudson city, which 
was only laid out in the year 1783, there are 
bow more than three hundred and twenty 
dwellings. This city is on the east side of the 
North River* one hundred and thirty miles 
above its mouth. By means also of the North 
River and Lake Champlain, a trade is carried 
uii with Montreal in Canada. 
But to go on with the survey of the towns 
to the southward. In New Jersey, we find 
Amboy, situated at the head of Raritan Bay, 
3 bay not inferior to any throughout the United 
States, The greatest encouragements also have 
been held out by the state legislature, to mer¬ 
chants who would settle there; but the town, 
notwithstanding, remains nearly in the state it 
was- in at the time of the revolution : sixty 
houses are all that it contains. New Bruns¬ 
wick, which is built on Raritan River, about 
fifteen miles above its' entrance into the bay, 
carries on a small inland trade with the ad¬ 
jacent country ; but the principal part of New 
Jersey is naturally supplied with foreign manu¬ 
factures, by New York on one side, and by 
Philadelphia on the other, the towns most hap¬ 
pily situated for the purpose. There are about 
two hundred houses in New Brunswick, and 
