A ftore-keeper, who fhould refufe to give credit, would here fell nothing: fo at leaft I was told by the worthy Reynhard. Other articles pay better, but do not make a quick return. Although the legal currency of the ftate of Jerfey is the fame with that of Pennfylvania, namely, feven fhillings and fixpence the dollar, the great traffic with New York makes the New York currency (eight fhillings the dollar) more common in that part of Jerfey, where this commerce is carried on; and in that currency they make their markets and ftate their accounts. THE ROAD FROM REYNHARD'S TAVERN TO The country, after leaving Flanders, is every where mountainous; they become lower and lower as we proceed, but we do not entirely lose them till within a few miles of Morristown. All this way the houfes are very indifferent, and very thinly fcattered. The lands feem to be fomewhat better. The most common crops are grafs, rye, and Indian corn. The bread ufed in this part of Jerfey is moftly of rye, as bread of Indian corn is most common in New England. Morristown, the capital of Morris county, which we enter on croffing a branch of the Rari ton, ton, is a pretty village, confifting of a hundred houfes, difperfed over the hillocks around. Here is the court of juftice, a Prefbyterian church, and the great fquare laid out for the centre of the town, but which can never be regular from the fituation of the grounds. Befides the Prefbyterian church, which is tolerably handfome, there is another belonging to the Anabaptists, and an academy, well built and refpectably conducted. The scholars fent away from this are fit for the fecond class in the college of Princetown. All the houfes in Morristown arc of wood, neat and well painted. The town-lots coft from eighty to a hundred and twenty dollars. Here, as in all this part of Jersey, most of the ground is in grafs and Indian corn. They rear a good many cattle, which they fend to Philadelphia and New York. The fear of the Heffian fly has prevented the farmers here from refuming the culture of corn; fome of them, however, mean to attempt it next year. There is at Morristown a fmall 66 Society for the encouragement of Agriculture and useful Arts." From what I could learn of fome of the moft zealous of its members, it has only the title-it does nothing: the fubfcription of the members furnishes a library, which at prefent confifts of no more than two hundred volumes, volumes, and in which, according to the fenfible inftitution of the founders, there are to be no books either of law or divinity. CHATHAM AND NEWARK. Chatham, lying eight miles from Morristown, is the first village we find on the New York road. Here the plain commences, and afterwards the ground becomes uneven as far as Newark. The agriculture and vent for the produce, all the way to Newark, is nearly the fame as at Morristown. The country is ftill more covered with orchards of apples, cherries, and peaches. They complain in Jersey of a small worm, which infinuates itself into the roots of the peach trees, and kills the tree in a year or two after it has attacked it. They have not been able to difcover either the cause of this worm, or a method to destroy it. Peach-brandy is nevertheless nearly as confiderable an article of commerce in Jersey as cyderbrandy. The inhabitants of Jersey, beft informed upon that fubject, told me, that they export more of these two kinds of brandy than they export of rum, wine-brandy, gin, and wine. Their export must therefore be great, as the consumption of foreign fpirits is not lefs confiderable in Jersey than elsewhere. The The red fruit, of which there are feveral kinds unknown in Europe, abounds in the county of Effex; bounded by the river Paffaik, a mile from Chatham, which contains feventeen thoufand free inhabitants, and thirteen hundred flaves. Lands fell at Chatham, and at Springfield (four miles beyond Newark), at from thirty to fortyfive dollars the acre. The foil is good; the houses increase in number and become better as we approach Newark, which is itfelf one of the finest villages in America, in point of extent, plan, the great number of good houses, and the wideness of the streets, which are covered generally with turf, and planted with trees.. The people of Jerfey seem to be very much divided in their political opinions. Nobody, or at least very few, now fpeaks of George Washington. The new President seems not to inspire the fame confidence as his predeceffor did. They dread a war with France. They constantly afk any traveller coming from Philadelphia whom they meet, and who appears to be a Frenchman, whether they are to have a war with France; and this question is generally accompanied with evident marks of difapprobation of the party which is thought to incline to that war. I fincerely hope no fuch event will take place. It would be a great misfortune to this country, where the people people are virtuous, tranquil, and happy, and which will require yet a long duration of the bleffings of peace to confirm its profperity, to cement its union, to fweeten the ill blood of parties, and to infure its real independence. It would alfo be a ferious misfortune to France, while it would occafion great joy to England, and would give pleasure to all the enemies of liberty and free conftitutions. HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF JERSEY. The first establishments made in New Jersey were by the Dutch, fhortly after their arrival at the north river, under the conduct of Admiral HUDSON. The fettlements were made along the river Delaware, and were abandoned by the fame Dutchmen in 1814. They were, in 1626, taken poffeffion of by the Swedes, who, advised by WILLIAM USELING, a rich merchant of that kingdom, of the beauty and fertility of the lands, formed a company. King GUSTAVUS ADOL PHUS, the nobility and clergy, and a number of individuals in Sweden, furnished money to the company, who fent to North America, in seven or eight veffels, a confiderable number of Swedish and Finlander colonifts. They arrived at Cape Henlepon in 1626, and the company's agents purchased from the Indians all the lands fituated between |