%j6 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA l: ' 
LETTER XIX. 
Travelling in America without a Companion not 
■ pleasant.—Meet two English Gentlemen .—• 
Set out together for Canada.—Description of 
the Country between Philadelphia and New 
York. — Bristol .— Trenton. — Princeton .—- 
College there.—Some Account of it. — Bruns¬ 
wick.—Posaik Water-fall.—Copper Mine . 
.—*Singular Discovery thereof. — New-York. 
<—Description of the City.-—Character and 
Manners of the Inhabitants. —• Leave it 
abruptly on Account of the Fevers.—Passage 
up North River from New York to Albany . 
—Great Beauty of the North River.—West 
Point. — Highlands.—Gusts of Wind com¬ 
mon in passing them.~Albany. — Descrip¬ 
tion of the City and Inhabitants. — Celebra¬ 
tion of the 4th of July.—Anniversary of 
American Indepcndance . 
MY DEAR SIR, Albany, July. 
I WAS on the point of leaving Philadel¬ 
phia for New York, intending from thence to 
proceed to Canada, when chance brought me 
into the company of two young gentlemen 
from England, each of whom was separately 
preparing to set off on a similar excursion, 
A rational and agreeable companion, to whom 
you might communicate the result of your 
