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|)ids, that prevent boats from ascending any 
higher, appear in full view as you pass* but 
their prospect is in no way pleasing; beyond 
them, the navigation may be pursued for up¬ 
wards of one hundred miles in small boats. 
Trenton is the captial of New Jersey, and 
contains about two hundred houses, together 
with four churches. The streets are com¬ 
modious, and the houses neatly built. Th& 
state-house* in which congress met for some 
time during the war, is a heavy clumsy edifice. 
Twelve miles from Trenton^ stands Prince¬ 
ton, a neat town, containing about eighty dwell¬ 
ings in One long street. Here is k large col¬ 
lege* held in much repute by the neighbouring 
states. The number of students amounts to 
upwards of seventy; from their appearance, 
however, and the course of studies they seem 
to be engaged in, like all the other American 
colleges I ever saw, it better deserves the title 
bf a grammar school than a college. The 
library, which we were shewn, is most wretch¬ 
ed ; consisting, for the most part* of old theolo¬ 
gical books* not even arranged with any regu¬ 
larity. An orrery, contrived by Mr. Rit- 
tenhouse, whose talents are so much boasted 
of by his countrymen, stands at one end of 
the apartment, but it is quite out of repair, as 
well as a few detached parts of a philosophical 
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