alongside the mills. The neighbourhood of these
mills is romantic and beautiful, and is one amongst
the many pleasand spots I have seen in this coun-
try. Indeed the town of Wilmington

has every
advantage; its situation being on a rising ground,
and its streets, intersecting each other at right
angles.

10th Month, 12th,

was spent pleasantly at
Wilmington

, in the families of J. G. and S. S.
In this place, as is many towns in this coun-
try, I observed that a considerable proportion of
the inhabitants were friends, and what to an
Englishman had something remarkable in it, I
noticed that the females at the inn, where I took
my place in the stage, appeared like plain consist-
ent friends, and indeed they were such, for ought
I know to the contrary.

10th Month, 13th.

I took my departure for Phila-
delphia

, the road being through a pleasant country,
diversified with hill and dale, and commanding a fine
prospect of the Delaware and the opposite Jersey
shore, nearly all the way. In passing by some
farms near Wilmington, I was struck with the sight
of several fields of Indian corn, the crops on which
were finer than any I had ever before seen. On
inquiry, I found they belonged to an innkeeper, who
had manured them well. From various observa-
tions I have made, I have no doubt that the land