260 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA: 
apparatus, enclosed in the same glass case. At 
the opposite end of the room, are two small 
cupboards, which are shewn as the museum. 
These contain a couple of small stuffed ali- 
gators, and a few singular fishes, in a miserable 
state of preservation, the skins of them being 
tattered in innumerable places, from their 
being repeatedly tossed about. The building 
is very plain, and of stone; it is one hundred 
and eighty feet in front, and four stories high. 
The next stage from Princeton is Bruns¬ 
wick, containing about two hundred houses; 
there is nothing very deserving of attention 
m it, excepting it be the very neat and com¬ 
modious wooden bridge that has been thrown 
across the Raritan River, which is about two 
hundred paces over. The part over the chan¬ 
nel is contrived to draw up, and on each side 
is a footway guarded by rails, and ornamented 
with lamps. Elizabeth Town and Newark, 
which you afterwards pass through in succes¬ 
sion, are both of them chearful lively looking 
places: neither of them is paved. Newark is 
built in a straggling mapner, and has very 
much the appearance of a large English vil¬ 
lage : there is agreeable society in this town. 
These two towns are only eight miles apart, 
and each of them has one or two excellent 
churches, whose tall spires appear very beau- 
