Tour from New York to Plilad:iphia, Sc. 
years will likewife in all probability give 
the latter the fame pre-eminence in popu- 
lation and commercial confequence... At 
prefent the New-Yorkers; and Phila- 
delphians {eem very jealous of the merits, 
fancied or real, of their refpective cities— 
my opinion I have given frankly and im- . 
partially. The different quarters and 
itreets of Philadelphia are adorned and 
fhaded with numberlefs gardens and trees, 
conducing greatly to its beauty and 
amenity :—their various tints of lively 
green fenfibly relieve the eye info hot a 
climate, as well as from the tirefome ef- 
fect oceationed by the fhow of fo many 
brick buildings. The winter here is {e- 
vere, but ferene and healthful; the fpring 
variable; the fummer intenfely and infut- 
ferably hot, the true cauie probably, in 
fo large a city, of the fatal fevers which 
{o frequently rage pmeinaane dog-days, 
and the early part of autumn. The ther- 
mometer in the fhade, in May and Sep- 
tember, often rifes confiderably above $0, 
and in the intervening months beyond 90 ; 
a degree of heat very trying to the con- 
{titution. of Britons. 
‘The Whites had in general the look of 
health and vigour, notwithftanding the 
extreme heat, which far exceeded any 
thing of the kind I recolle&ed to have felt 
in England.. The city fwarmed with 
French, »Irifh, and. German emigrants, 
The fociety of Friends, or Quakers, 
amount to feveral thoulands ; but to af- 
certain their number would be difficult, 
having been unable to obtain any accurate 
information on the fubject. 
The ladies of Philadelphia may vie 
with thofe of New-York’ in delicacy of 
feature and complexion, or graceful figure 
‘and elegance of apparel: I faw feveral at 
both places who might have pafled for 
beauties, even in England! and to judge 
alfo by the {pecimens I met with from New 
England, the female face divine, and fine 
proportion of form, have not degenerated 
in the Trans-atlantic colonies. “Th 
American fair, from their modeft referve 
and fhynels, win not fo foon perhaps on 
the ftranger, as the more. fprightly and 
g2y European; but, on a proper intro- 
duction and habits or friendly intercourfe, 
that conftraint alters into chearfulnefs and 
alluring: manners, -cradually fubfides into 
frank and playful, though innocent fami- 
liarity. -They have; indeed, but too well- 
founded eafon” to dread: the Europeans; 
for during the revolutionary-war, many 
fof: them’ fuffered from their haplefs credu- 
‘ity, having been left the difconfelate 
victitns'of thofe men“whom they had-fo 
Qencrouily feleed for lovers and huf 
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435° 
bands » it. may be owing to this very 
contideration, and the. frequent mention 
in the London papers of divorcés and 
elopements, that the Americans, wrong- 
fully imagine all Englifhmen to be un- 
principled, and Enelifh women indi{creet 
and immodeft:—a moft erroneous and 
liberal prejudice, like all other national 
ones; for every candid and judicious 
traveller or foreigner acquainted with 
England, mutt be fenfible of the irre- 
proachable chara&ter and amiable demea-~ 
nour of its lovely females in general. Is 
it not extremely unjuft and hazardous to 
judge of the many by the few? yet this 
is a common practice, efpecially where 
war has contributed to loofen the bonds 
of amity, and to rivet the odiouvs links 
of national enmity and jealowly: 
There are feveral country houfes in the 
Englifh ftyle in the vicinity of Philadel- 
phia, which recalled to memory the plea-~ 
fant banks of the Thames! the refem- 
blance is the moft firiking along the 
gentle meanders of the Schuylkil, orna- 
mented with fome elegant feats and 
gardens, furrounded with verdure and 
finely cultivated farms. : : 
Sauntering one evening with fome En- 
glifhmen upon the quays on the Delaware; 
we were not a little furprifed at the dife 
embarkation of a very fingular cargo-— 
no lefs than that of 500 Irifh emigrants 
—feemingly im a wretched plight! them 
vacant and forlorn locks, {qualid and 
fickly appearance, and tattered apparel, 
fulficiently indicated theiz poverty, loug 
voyage, and crowded ftowage: and what 
was more than probable—their mean and 
{canty fare.. It was, however, foothing; 
to obierve the mutual congratulations of 
the poor wanderers on their fafe arrival 
on terra firma—a lJand as it were ftretch= 
ing out its expanded and friendly arms-to 
receive the diftrefled outcatts that anmualiy 
quit, by thoufands, the parent countries: 
(witnefs the amazing’emigration of late 
years from Great Britain, Ireland, Hol 
Jand, Germany, and Frarice.} “Among 
the number were “fome decent-looking 
people—farmers and their tamilres—at- 
tracted to America by the hopes of pur- 
chafing lands at a cheap rate, and-evading 
erinding taxes and -tythes ; for fo they ' 
honeftly informed us, This clafs of in- 
horious hufbandmen from Europe, has-of 
late very confiderably &rengthened the in-~ 
terior of the itates from Vertnorit to Geor- 
gia: whailft the peorer fort gencridly ine 
; : 
denture themfelves as-{ervaits for-aterin 
of'years in the Country to-the tarmer’, or 
te the trades=veople in the towns. 
[Fo be continued } 
