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and the-cyder is celebrated throughout 
America tor its excellence. The river 
Hackiniack, and the branches communi- 
cating with it; are in this neighbourhood. 
In this morning’s ride we traveried many 
extenfive marfhes, which in the warm 
featon breed abundance of noxious ver- 
rnin and inieéis, the mofquito etpecially : 
however, on the increafe of population, 
and confequent culture, thole marfhy 
grounds will probably be drained, and- 
converted into ufeful pafture-land. 
Elizabeth-town, fix niles beyond New- 
ark, foon-claimed our attention, fuperior 
to.it in fize, and not interior in modern 
beauty; though from its low fituation 
upon the channel of the fea, feparating 
the main-land from Staten-Ifle, it is ra- 
ther expofed to floods. Afterwards we 
came to Woodbridge and Brunfwick, 
{mall places, hardly deferving the appel- 
lation of towns; the latter, however, has 
a gocd inn, where we dincd: here we 
afied a. ferry over the Raritan, feventeen 
miles beyond which is Prmce-town; 
where our party alighting to take re- 
frefhment and change horfes, I embraced 
the opportunity of vinting the college, or 
-feminary for the education of youth; a 
{pacioug and not inelegant edifice, well 
endowed.» Several handiome houfes give 
the town a chearful look; the church 
adds alfo to its beauty. The fite of this 
place being more elevated than Elizabeth- 
‘town, renders it pleafanter and more 
healthfuls the adjacent country is agree- 
ably diverfified with cultivated rifing- 
grounds; a pleaiing novelty after pafling 
hitherte-throucgh fo dead a flat: though 
occafionally interfperied with fome ftrong 
crops, of Indian-corn, rye, and clover, 
promifng amply. to repay the hufoand- 
man’s toil, and cheer his drocping fpivits 
after his daily expofuye to fuch a burning 
fun. Our Englith farmers and cottagers 
are but too little fenfible of the advantages 
refuiting from a mild ‘and temperate 
cume. From Prince-town.to Trenton on 
the Delaware, and beyond it to Phila- 
delphia, a fine, open, champaign coun- 
try prefented itfelf on every fide, bound- 
ed-only by the horizon. The conditions 
of the farms in this State appeared flo- 
venly im comparifon of. thofe of England, 
or even of the diftri€t of Flat-Buth, on 
Long-Hiland. The bridges were indifter- 
ent; but the fences (in lieu of hedges), 
partly of fone, partly of wood, were 
» better, than we had been accuitomed to 
in New-York:and Long. Jiland. . Few 
_. gentlemen’s feats, if. amy. were perceiv- 
able, till we reached the confines of the 
Journey from New York to Philadelphia. 
State bordering on Pennfylvania, dlong © 
the beautitul banks ot the Delaware; 
where the governor’s houfe (of New-, 
Jerfey), and Mr. Morris’s, of Philadel- 
phia, adorned the rural icene.. ‘The wea- 
ther being cvol and ferene, had enhanced 
the pleafure ot the journey; but by no 
means ioth to efcape trom io cramped and 
jolting a fituation as the machine we tra- 
veiled in, I alighted giadly ac Trenton, 
where we {lept—the diftarice 65 miles trom 
New-York—a tolerable day’s journey, 
confidering the many tirefome ferries. 
The inns on the road are rather high m 
their charges, but the accommodations 
might be reckoned good by traveliers not 
over faftidious, were it not for a vile 
cuftom, common throughout the United 
States, of towing two or three men in 2 
bed ;- atid from the repugnanice of an Eng- 
lifhman to conform to this hoggifh tafhion, 
they inftantly ditcover his country ! Row- 
ever, you feldom experience any difiiculty 
in obtaining a couch toyourtelf; making 
allowance for a retinue of unwelécme 
gentry, bugs, fleas, and -mofquites, all 
of which, and warms of flies, pefter one 
during the hot months, along the whole 
extent of the low-lands inthe maritime 
States. The peafantry, whom I had feen 
at work in the fields and villages, and the 
domeftics in the towns, were moftly ne- 
groes: and I cculd not but remark their 
good-natured civility, contrafted with the 
churlifhnefs and furly mien of the lower 
claffes of whites. Has republicanifm a 
tendency to make them rude, fulky, and 
arrogant? For I conftantly found that 
temper prevailing among the commonalty, 
both in town and country, throughout 
thefe midland States: very unlike the 
chearful good humour and obliging dif- 
pofition, chara¢terizing the fame ranks in 
various parts of Europe. As for the 
American gentry, they are diftinguifhed 
by the fame courtefy and urbanity of - 
manners, as the well-educated eliewhere. 
The New-Jerfeyans, whom I faw, were, 
for the moft part, meagre, hard-featured, 
tall, and: fun-burnt: the women ordinary, 
coarfe, and ill-clad (I {peak of the com- 
mon people); no allurmg bloom on their 
cheeks, or clear wholefome complexions, 
nor the {mart lively air and becoming at- 
tire, fo bewitchingly attractive in the 
Englifi and the Swifs females. 
On the 17th (May), fetting off early’ 
in the morning from Trenton, acrofs the 
Delaware, we breakfaited at a village 
ten miles further on—the very reverfe of 
its commercial namefake—Briftol.- We 
found, however, a comfortable-inn, plea- 
fanily 
