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"Oct. the 27th.  In the morning I set out on a little
journey to New York, in Company with Mr. Peter Cock, with a
view to see the country, and to inquire into the safest road,
which I could take in going to Canada, * * *

"That part where we traveled at present was pretty well
inhabitied on both sides of the road, By Englishmen, Germans,
and other Europeans.  Plains and hills of different dimensions
were seen alternately, mountains and stones I never saw, excepting
a few pebbles.  Near almost every farm was a great
orchard with peach and apple trees, some of which were yet
loaded with fruit." p. 216.

On this journey he mentions passing through New Frankfort
and New Bristol, on the banks of the Delaware opposite Burlington
in New Jersey.  In the evening of that day (Oct. 27)
he reached Trenton, having there crossed the Delaware on a
ferry.

Oct. 28.  He continued the journey from Trenton, N.J.,
via Princetown, where they stopped over night.  He found the
country thickly settled.

"During the greater part of the day we had very extensive
cornfields on both sides of the road. * * * Near
almost every farm was a spacious orchard full of peaches and
        