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Passing through Lancaster, he claimed the place was \"very primitive in its appearance, having still many brick and frame houses...\"  He found Harrisburg to be \"prettily situated along the Susquehanna River.”  He noted that the business of legislation pervaded everything.  He described and sketched the chair that John Hancock sat in when he signed the Declaration of Independence.  Watson commented on the churches, public square and market in Carlisle.      \nWatson was born in Batsto, New Jersey, the son of William and Lucy Fanning Watson.  In 1806 he opened a mercantile house in Philadelphia and was later listed as a bookseller and stationer.  In 1814, Watson accepted a position as cashier of the Bank of Germantown and received a notary public commission.  He remained with the bank until 1848.  He then became secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, where he remained until 1859.  Watson was also an amateur historian and a pioneer in the use of oral histories and public opinion questionnaires.  He published, among other works, Annals of Philadelphia, Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Settlement and Advancement of New York City and State, and Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Early Settlement  and Progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.  In 1812 he married Phebe Barron Crowell and had 7 children."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1833 - D:00 M:00 Y:1835"},{"label":"Creator","value":"John Fanning Watson (1779-1860)"},{"label":"Place","value":"Manahawkin, New Jersey; Cape May, New Jersey; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania"},{"label":"Format","value":["Manuscript"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Diaries","Men-Diaries","New Jersey-Description and travel","Pennsylvania-Description and travel"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"Collection 189\n58x29.7"},{"label":"Finding Aid","value":"http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0189.htm"},{"label":"Rights","value":["No Copyright - United States"]},{"label":"Source Collection","value":["Watson Family Papers (Col. 189)"]}],"description":"Travelling Notes of J. F. Watson.  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July 1833.        Myself & wife left home – Germantown, on Wednesday morning the 24th of July   at 4 ½ o’Clock to go in the Steam boat to Burlington at 6 Am.  Arrived at the wharf in   our Chariotee in one hour.  A fine cool refreshing morning, - giving vigour & enlivening   feelings to the spirits.  The thoughts of new scenes & pleasurable emotions ahead, & of  sea shore – sea air & surf, to be seen & felt at the close of the same day, give spring &   animation to the thoughts & conversation, as we ride along.  What new scenes & new life   are witnessed at and about the Steam boats – how many there with extra excitement, &   hopes of gratification – At length we are off, urging our onward passage – and another &   rival Steam boat in our wake – both crowded with still & gazing passengers – how rapid,   sure & steady our progress – what power of invention – what a sight for “poor John   Fitch”.  such a triumph of his art! and yet he never lived to see the accomplishment!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d7cbb0a2-ea95-4a8f-8dfc-20a7d91a9735/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"10","height":2225,"width":1575,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4a6b14c6-c412-421f-b54f-1462aaaf6f25/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4a6b14c6-c412-421f-b54f-1462aaaf6f25","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1575},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_3","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Sunday, met with no observance, save that some few of us sang some hymns of best   character for music.    On Tuesday, we had a matter of deep & exciting interest – a Thunder, rain & hail storm,   came up suddenly while some female bathers were in the surf.  They were hurried out &   hurried homewd.  at half distance they were met by the tempest on the middle of the   sandy waste – my wife among the Number.  They could make no progress – no umbrella   could stand it – nothing was left but to bear it.  The sand & hail flew & was blinding –   They who went to help could not return – The scene was fearful – all were drenched –   Every body saw & every body exclaimed & felt.  The storm was but of short duration –     There is interest excited & felt in the arrival & return of compy – We look out   eagerly for the new faces, not knowing but some truly welcome friend might   unexpectedly arrive - & often our regrets are excited at the departure of those who had   cheered & solaced our stay –     At length we spend our weeks, and also prepared to turn our faces homeward to   revisit those who are anxiously counting"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4a6b14c6-c412-421f-b54f-1462aaaf6f25/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_4","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"11","height":2225,"width":1575,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/457ef2bc-5e0f-4c52-9333-67441b4e903e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/457ef2bc-5e0f-4c52-9333-67441b4e903e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1575},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_4","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the hours of our welcome return – We leave “the Mansion of Health” – delighting &   delightful Sea-board, on the moonlight evening of Wednesday the 31 Augt. to spend the   night at Busby’s on the mainland – The sail (of 3 boats) in the moon light beams across   such an expanse of Waters was charming, - as well for its soothing calmness & security,   as its novelty – No musquitoes! –     On Thursday morning, 1 Augt, we rise at sunrise & witness its rise upon the   distant ocean – how beautiful its burnished golden rays!  & how quickening & inspiring   the thought, that, that same day at Eve, we should be again at home, Sweet home!  Our   drive through the day, in an Extra, was extremely agreeable – no dust – no heat, but a fine   driving Western wind, cooling & refreshing us all the way –     At Rogers’ near Cedar bridge where we breakfasted, stood a superior wild cherry   tree in which had hung 11 Deer at one time last winter slain by the Hunters. –  and at Butlers’ place further on the road there had been brought last winter by the Hunters   146 Deer! – This shows"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/457ef2bc-5e0f-4c52-9333-67441b4e903e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_5","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"12","height":2225,"width":1575,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/af72ae20-7dfb-4bb7-95a4-e5ad51a39f0e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/af72ae20-7dfb-4bb7-95a4-e5ad51a39f0e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1575},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_5","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"how very much the woody lands still partake of their wilderness wildness – Poor indians,   what a delightful Home must the West Jersies, have once been to you –     “Now forcd from the land that gave them birth   They dwindle from the face of Earth” –    We often notice cranberries growing – Wortleberries are every where –     Finally, we arrive at Burlington at 2 ½ o clock – at 3, o clock get onboard the   Philada Steam boat – Find only strangers – a strange thing among so many – Dine   onboard – See & contemplate all the River & rural beauties of the Delaware & the   Country – arrive at the City at 5 o,clock – find our charioteer just arrived – get in & reach   home at 6 o’clock – set down to tea, with all our family in health around us, & make their   wondering ears tingle with the life & spirit of our journeys & adventures.            Augt 1833"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/af72ae20-7dfb-4bb7-95a4-e5ad51a39f0e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_6","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":2225,"width":1575,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/166e49c1-0600-4ae2-8151-86808383f735/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/166e49c1-0600-4ae2-8151-86808383f735","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1575},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_6","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Cape Island, Sea shore    July 1834 –    containing notices of myself, by me."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/166e49c1-0600-4ae2-8151-86808383f735/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_7","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"14","height":2225,"width":1513,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0da51bbb-111b-4d14-bb83-e7f21cf06893/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0da51bbb-111b-4d14-bb83-e7f21cf06893","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1513},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_7","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"My Trip to Cape May island –  from the 4 to 10 July 1834       In this visit, I shall endeavour to pencil off the images which rise in such an   excursion – Men, manners, and things, wherever we go, are full of interest to the mind   that can perceive & note them.     I am to take with me, two young misses*, whose minds & feelings are much alive   to the sensations of novelty & surprise.  I shall be amused & interested by watching &   cherishing their emotions.  I remember with lively recollection, how much my young   mind, was once stirred and affected by my first voyage in a sea vessel down the Delaware   & out to Sea.     We leave home – at Germantown, on the afternoon of the 3d July, so as to be at   the vessel – the copper bottomed Sloop Union, by      Marginal notation: * Selina W. and Charlotte L."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0da51bbb-111b-4d14-bb83-e7f21cf06893/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_8","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"15","height":2225,"width":1513,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4f7e3bb2-de10-4951-818c-5b2ae9829906/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4f7e3bb2-de10-4951-818c-5b2ae9829906","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1513},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_8","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"5 O.Clo. – intending to start, & sail all night – one could not but notice the pleasant faces,   which the anticipation of pleasure, created in my young friends.  When we arrived,   however, at the wharf, the sailing was deferred until midnight – This was an unexpected   damper; & we made the best of it, by going to see a distinguished painting, of the Wars of   Bonaparte.  This occupied some hours, & at 10. O:Clo we went onboard to Sleep.  What   a novelty to put the girls into the Ladies cabin, & to stow them away in births!  I also   slept near them – All of us retained a portion of our clothes, so that we could at any time   run up upon deck & see & hear of any thing new – At midnight we cast off from the   wharf, & went drafting along with a light wind, among the various shipping anchored in   the River – Of these we had some fear –     Our passengers consisted of half a dozn of citizen Gunners, going down for a   shooting excursion – others were for resting at the Boarding houses – Some mulatto   women – good singers, were going there as Servants – We had a small cannon onboard to   give Salutes at the towns for the 4th July –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4f7e3bb2-de10-4951-818c-5b2ae9829906/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_9","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"16","height":2225,"width":1513,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d7d47a3f-175d-4a31-a41b-b2cbea71ea05/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d7d47a3f-175d-4a31-a41b-b2cbea71ea05","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1513},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_9","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"This was more of an annoyance, than a pleasure to me or my girls; - but it was part of life   in a Sea vessel.  We had full measure of sail & generally passed such other vessels as we   found near us.     At 5 O’Clo. A.M. found ourselves off the Lazaretto – The place of refuge for the   sick coming in from Sea, & once the renowned Head Quarters of the Swedish Governor   & government, in the days of the primitive settlement of our countries – All these scenes,   as I considered them, had once been the familiar places of those Pioneer Swedes – now   all, all gone down to the dust!     Such a vessel as ours presents a good picture of Seamen & Seamanship – We feel   the vicissitudes of Winds & tides, & this gives interest to our passage – We here “whistle   for wind”, & feel calmns; - We hope for a strong wind, & at the turn of tide, cast anchor   & go ashore for game & for milk!  This is different from the Steam boat, which goes on   steadily, unaffected by all.  Both ways, are good in their places –     We have our breakfast – and a very good one too, (as all our diet is) – given at 7   O’Clo. off Chester – the same place,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/d7d47a3f-175d-4a31-a41b-b2cbea71ea05/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_10","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"17","height":2225,"width":1513,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1dc3775e-1c8d-45f5-a10f-fcc184ae1f5a/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1dc3775e-1c8d-45f5-a10f-fcc184ae1f5a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1513},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_10","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"where Penn in early days made his landing.  In time, we make our way, with fair wind,   but very light, pass Marcus Hook, & the Highlands of Christianna – These are still   beautiful, as natural & as cultivated scenery – off this place we dine – upon an excellent   Dinner – our cook & cookery is good; & our ice & water, form most palatable beverage   during a warm day – Some of our company are very playful & full of pranks - & Mr.   John Bennett – a pilot of 60 yrs of age, Keeps himself continually tipsey & amusing by   his jibes & jeers - & his specimens of Sea-talk & Sea Sentiments – Our coloured women   are quite musical & sing with good effect – The River above & below us, is all speckled   with white Sails & dark vessels, going with us or from us –     Got to New Castle at 3. P.M. & sailed by it – The town looks respectable, new   (altho’ old) & much improved – It has a new road opened along the river shore, at its   northern end, through what I had remembered once as the ancient Swedish & Dutch   burial ground – They probably had forgotten the reverence due to the dead – so long gone   down to the dust."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1dc3775e-1c8d-45f5-a10f-fcc184ae1f5a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_11","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"18","height":2225,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab8530e6-70c0-4bcc-9880-f4ad8c344b48/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab8530e6-70c0-4bcc-9880-f4ad8c344b48","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_11","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"In time, we sail by Delaware City & the remains of the once formidable Fort Delaware,   - a prey once to our own fire, which was once promised to resist all possible fire from the   Enemy!     Sun set, shone out in great beauty & glory; made up of refulgent red & burnished   gold – we were now half way to the Cape & the wind fair, and as we take our Supper we   cheer ourselves with a good run for the night, & to be early at the Cape shore, on the   following morning – So far, all felt & liked their vessel & fare – By & by, night   descended shrouded in darkness; - some rain also came.  The Captn began to talk   ominously of storms, & hinted at stopping for his harbour in the Bay, off the Duck creek   light house – This was a new & unexpected incident, & had its interest or “a mingled   yarn of good & ill” – I suspect however, it was rather a timid affair; for I knew that other   River Vessels run at all time of night in Summer.  We submitted & went to sleep, & there   forgot our wishes to “go ahead” – We lay at anchor all the night; - no storm came, & next   morning we again started early with a good & fair wind, from the head of the Bay &   distant 50 miles from the Cape."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab8530e6-70c0-4bcc-9880-f4ad8c344b48/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_12","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"19","height":2225,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f5e5025b-7911-497b-a11a-a8d43a3772a9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f5e5025b-7911-497b-a11a-a8d43a3772a9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_12","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"We are now in the Salt air atmosphere, & therefore can be reconciled to a slower   progress, since we are thus inhaling the air we were wishing – After breakfast, the wind   subsides, & from this time to dinner time, the sun being warm, passengers show the first   signs of restiveness & languor, and begin to feel what it is to wish for port.  After Dinner   we are in sight of Cape May & its Light house, but wind being weak & the flood tide   strong, we can only wish for & look ashore – But several of us getting up a bathing   scheme, - We are thoroughly dashed with buckets of salt water.  In the mean time, my   girls, are permitted to make & drink any quantity of Iced lemonade – I generally drink ale   & water.  At Eventide we anchor – We see the light house sending forth its beaming light   – our port is near; but we are detained. – What a picture is this of the state of many a   weary mariner!  We go to sleep; again forget our detention, & next morning before Sun   rise we are set ashore in a whaleboat & ourselves & baggage are quickly conveyed,   through three miles of cultivated country, across the point, to the neat & picturesque town   of Cape Island; & quickly make our breakfast at Aaron Bennetts boarding Ho."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f5e5025b-7911-497b-a11a-a8d43a3772a9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_13","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2","height":2263,"width":1575,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e4884b8a-562f-4f6e-87d1-295f766ab328/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e4884b8a-562f-4f6e-87d1-295f766ab328","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2263,"width":1575},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_13","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"2     Soon pass the ancient Shackamaxon, now no longer a village far off from the City, but   built up as a city itself & joined to the great City.  Look over to Petty’s green island,   floating on the bosom of the Silver tide, & there still see the remains of our gallant   Frigate the Alliance.  Thought of the relics from her which I gave to LaFayette when   here, & of the little model Frigate from it given to Comdre Barron, & now an ornament in   the Presidents palace at Washington.  None think of these things but myself.  “Relics to   devotion dear”!     How the big City outgrows acquaintance; its population becomes new or strange;   how few faces in such crowds as people a steam boat, can be recognized – occasionally   we notice traces of known visages grown older & altered, and sometimes new ones   marked with lineaments of remembered friends.  There is some amusement & interest, in   idle moments of reading characters & guessing at minds & thoughts. - Looking ashore   upon the numerous villas & Gentlemens seats, as we pass, we notice a perpetual   succession of quiet & repose, - yet cares & perplexities sometimes invade the bosoms of   the aspiring & proud inmates - & we sometimes think the lowly tenant, beside them,   possesses the most tranquility.  So may think – “a melancholy Jaques”!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e4884b8a-562f-4f6e-87d1-295f766ab328/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_14","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"20","height":2200,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/10b5b92d-3ae8-4b9e-9406-9c21a3751ee2/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/10b5b92d-3ae8-4b9e-9406-9c21a3751ee2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2200,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_14","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"My girls saw much to wonder at along the road; - they had thought all was sand &   barren, & they found white clover, natural; fields of corn frequent; & magnolia & roses   frequent in the wet ground along the road.  Much they wondered, as they drove into the   town, & at first beheld the long line of foaming surges, tumbling ashore, along the long   extended beach view, laying before them!  We had thus spent Friday & Saturday, upon   the River & Bay, & had begun our residence at the Cape on Sunday morning. – The day   seemd to have little of Sabbath to ourselves, or others – It soon became busy to us – I   made into the surf before breakfast, & they into it at 11 O’Clock, & all of us again in the   afternoon – Every spirit was refreshed & delighted. – How many of us go to the shore for   such comforts, & yet strange to say, altho’ it so much benefits & Delights us, the natives   scarcely use it, & few or none of them show signs of robust health, but rather of Sun   parched & mummy-like skins.     The company of visitors are but few at present – Don’t come much ‘till after the 4   July celebration – Our house has Mrs Vezin & children, & Mr & Mrs Brown & Son &   daughter.  The house & table is good.  It is especially attentive to give us Sea diet –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/10b5b92d-3ae8-4b9e-9406-9c21a3751ee2/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_15","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"21","height":2200,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/43149971-eadb-426c-b067-b042b843c02b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/43149971-eadb-426c-b067-b042b843c02b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2200,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_15","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"such as frequent dishes of oysters – Some Lobsters & Sheep-head – some smaller fish are   at every table – Our house might be drawn thus --:  Bennetts house    (Note:  here follows a small drawing of the house)    This presents pretty much a specimen of all the houses, save that the others are generally   larger - & especially Hughes “Big house”, which is a real mammoth – having 12 pillars   along the colonade 3 stories of chambers – one long Hall of 130 feet with 12 hanging   chandeliers & a ladies Hall adjoining well furnished of 60 feet additional length. – All the   houses on Cape Island are whitewashed & have red ochre roofs – All look extremely neat   & well; - formerly it was not so, & I took much pains to get them to whitewash – They do   it with salt pickle, & their red ochre, they mix up with boiled rye meal.  All the houses are   of frame & 6 inch boards – very neatly made – all the boarding houses have galleries &   Piazzas – Say Gregorys – the two Hughes’ – Bennetts & Wade & Sturdivants – The first   named is nearest the Sea; & the last named furthest off; but is the most finished house in   its style of architecture. – J. B. Hughes pays 1500 Ds a year for his big house. – It seems   much for only 6 or 7 weeks of boarders to pay at 10 Ds a week – Some pay but 7 & 8 Ds   –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/43149971-eadb-426c-b067-b042b843c02b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_16","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"22","height":2200,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f3d5c28e-6841-4390-89c5-f09775ce4c0f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f3d5c28e-6841-4390-89c5-f09775ce4c0f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2200,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_16","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"We feel here a continued interest in looking out upon the distant Sea, to see the passing   Vessels to & fro – especially to see Pilot boats & other small Vessels arrive off the place   & send their small boats ashore in the raging surf – they seem so endangered & get   through so safely!  We are interested too always at the bathing hours, not only with our   own selves & own company, but also to see the congregation of others adventuring in the   same exercises along the shore – To see the timid & delighted & shouting women, is   among our finest emotions.  The rough surges of the ocean, is wholly a new enterprise for   them; - they feel & act as if they thought they were real heroines for the occasion!     At other times, we wander along the shore choosing & gathering shells & pebbles   to bring away.  They are so many relics – prizes, tho’ homely, & little worth.     Finally, we come to the close of our last day of stay – now we must begin to pack  up – must take a last look & a last plunge! – We feel regrets to leave; & feel wishes also   for home. – Three days spent here, seemed magnified into doubletime, by reason of the   three divisions of time in which we bathe daily, & because with little also to do, time   seems prolonged by idleness – We seem satisfied."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f3d5c28e-6841-4390-89c5-f09775ce4c0f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_17","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"23","height":2200,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3bb27d1d-b91e-48ed-a99e-7de781414a28/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3bb27d1d-b91e-48ed-a99e-7de781414a28","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2200,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_17","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Wishing to try every variety, we conclude to return home by the land stage, in one day –   we start at early morn – go all the way to Tuckahoe to breakfast – thence 35 miles to   dinner — The diet was indifferent – The day was pretty warm at mid-day – our   passengers were agreeable – We rode, through but few towns – saw but few farms; but   long ranges of oak & pine woods of 10 to 15 miles of unbroken extent – presenting a real   picture of primitive Country – Here & there we find Coal huts & Coal hills formed by the   Coal makers –     When we came to Chew’s landing - & saw its neat & rural appearance, not far   from a hilly & romantic district along the range of Timber Creek, it caused me to feel a   lively remembrance of my departed excellent mother, who in this neighbourhood, spent   some of her early marriage-days in the time of the Revolution – “Twill soothe to be   where I have been” – I thought, as I looked out upon the little nest of Vessels in the   water, & buildings there its like a little navy yard. –     At last we came to Camden in the dusk of the Evening, & saw how greatly it is   enlarged & changed since"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3bb27d1d-b91e-48ed-a99e-7de781414a28/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_18","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"24","height":2200,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6cb3749-2f2f-486d-80be-49f1d747c980/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6cb3749-2f2f-486d-80be-49f1d747c980","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2200,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_18","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the visits there of my boyhood – what was then open grass lots & fields & orchards, are   now Streets & houses & well peopled too! – We cross the River in the Steam boat; - see   the lighted lamps of the City, along the city warves; - land there in a few minutes – go to   Mr Wade’s & pass the night, & next morning all arrive safely at Home.  Sweet Home –   blest Home!    ___________________________     P.S.  Since my former visit to Cape Island, in 1822, the house in which I then   stopped – say Captn Aaron Bennetts, then the nearest to the surf, has been actually   reached by the invading Waters!  This circumstance being forseen, had caused a timely   recession, some few years back, so that the house now nearest to the surf – (About the   same distance from it now, that I saw Bennetts house in 1822 formerly Ellis Hughes)   called Gregory’s establishment, is in fact an enlarged building formed in part from   Bennetts house removed back to that place.  I think it is now but too visible, that even this   house is yet to be invaded, & to be obliged to be removed, or to be demolished by the   encroachment of the Ocean shore. – The distance from Bennetts house to the Sea bank in   1822, was 165 feet – and in 1804 as it was then measured & cut upon the House by   Commodore Decatur, it was 334 feet.  It had been as much as 300 feet still further off, as   remembered by some old man who told me so in 1822              Turn"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6cb3749-2f2f-486d-80be-49f1d747c980/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_19","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"25","height":2225,"width":1562,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/474f3c67-4013-44e2-87a6-0752bb755acb/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/474f3c67-4013-44e2-87a6-0752bb755acb","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1562},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_19","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"P.S.  I have made one reflection, induced by observation of facts – It is that these   watering places & congregated resorts, bring out much of that suppressed aristocracy,   which dares not show itself at home – at least by those who have any popularity to study   or consult among the people.  At these places, people instinctively sort & parcel   themselves according to their caste – generally aspiring as high on the scale as they can   attain; but at home, many of the same class of persons have to pretend to be in frank   fellowship, with sundry small men, who by political favour, are taken from the rank of   butchers, tailors, painters &c, and are elected to be “the Honourable”, the Members of the   Assembly of Penna” &c! – Legislators are not supposed to need education, reading &   intelligence, but ardour, zeal & passion, & tavern talk, seems to answer all which is   required by the people – By such people as can vote & turn the ballot boxes, without any   property to loose, & with no pecuniary devotion to the soil."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/474f3c67-4013-44e2-87a6-0752bb755acb/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_20","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"26","height":2237,"width":1488,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1e1daebb-50d2-4730-a5b6-c52b78d1ab01/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1e1daebb-50d2-4730-a5b6-c52b78d1ab01","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1488},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_20","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Journey to Harrisburgh    and    to Duncans Island & Carlisle    Jany 1835"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1e1daebb-50d2-4730-a5b6-c52b78d1ab01/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_21","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"27","height":2237,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/47515e56-9f3c-4fa9-8a71-17425b6a6d42/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/47515e56-9f3c-4fa9-8a71-17425b6a6d42","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_21","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"On the 12 Jany 1835 - I started from Philad to make a winter visit to the Seat of   Government, at Harrisburg – a place not before seen by me; & therefore to be expected to   produce the usual excitation of novelity, & the interest belonging to new scenes – With   my usual habit of comparing olden time events, with the present extensive improvement,   I shall occasionally notice some such differences.     Thus to begin with our Start from Philada in the rail cars, on the Columbia road,   what a wonderful change in the manner of the conveyance! – the progress being so still &   even, like gliding on the plane of a River in a boat – As we pass Bushkill &   Springettsberry, in one approach to Fairmount, once the intended residence of Penn, -   here defaced & marred were all their former rural beauties, as country Seats on elevated   grounds – overlooking from their distant heights “the Great Towne”, seen in the remote   plain below – Much of the region which we passed from the centre square, had been –   even down to the War of Independence, a district of woods – Next we passed the   renowned water works, lifted up to the summit of the mount, & much of the high grounds   adjacent drawn away for the use of its gravel – Instead of the former"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/47515e56-9f3c-4fa9-8a71-17425b6a6d42/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_22","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"28","height":2237,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0d7a78b4-6d24-4407-9a5f-c6244feae5b5/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0d7a78b4-6d24-4407-9a5f-c6244feae5b5","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_22","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Schuylkill, cursing its natural banks along its shady bowers, the whole lifted up to a   broad bason of deep water for the beverage of the Citizens. – Thence we cut through   sloping banks, amidst newly built rural looking Inns, and also pass the great Ice house,   employing hundreds of men in filling it from the River, & the whole building enclosing   the Ice above the ground, – a new discovery of science, & also a new luxury for all our   citizens to enjoy. – Gliding hastily by scenes & changes like this, we come next to the   splendid achievement of the Great & elegant Bridge across the Schuylkil at Peters’ Island   – The former beautiful & wooded island is now submersed & gone, while its rival above   enjoys all its fame.     Being arrived at the Western side of the Schuylkill & about to proceed westward,   one is inclined to think of the contrasts in the Country, which may occur in the period of   80 years, when Govr Pownal made his inland Journey, through the same line of country –   He then went to Lancaster as a chief Western town, & knowing of no intermediate towns   then (like Coatsville & Downingstown since) he has no means to markd the measure"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0d7a78b4-6d24-4407-9a5f-c6244feae5b5/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_23","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"29","height":2237,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/68c990a8-998a-4712-87ea-e46ed1a6cf2b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/68c990a8-998a-4712-87ea-e46ed1a6cf2b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_23","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"of his progress, than the Inns on the road, he was content to name the Whitehorse, the   Vernon, the Buck, the Ship, the Waggon, The Tun, the Red Lion – all signs still   preserved in their place, save the Vernon which is now the Warren – The former Hosts   are gone, but the weather beaten signs still creak & vibrate in the storms of many winters.     The ride along the great valley of Chester, so long held in view is very interesting   – Here the snow which had fallen two weeks before, every where, save beyond the   Allegheny, presented still some very decent sleighing, - altho in the city neighbourhood,   it had worn out in about 3 days.  It was in this valley that Gov Pownal expressed his   surprise to find land so good as to produce 5 £ the acre, when now behold, they produce   with their better improvements in building 50 to 100 Ds per acre!       In time we traverse the valley in its highest ground, from the South over to the   North mountain, & after riding along its base several miles, we come at length to the   Gap, which is of Clayey soil, & requires a long line of piles upon which to construct the   rail-road of sufficient firmness – This is the pass by which the waters once – in the   Pequay Valley, were made to pass, - & this fact, with others like it, demonstrate still more   my theory given to Professor Silliman, that at the time when God said let the waters be   divided which came every where over the surface of the Earth “in the beginning” & they   rushed round the whole Globe, & sunk into the abyss of Seas, whereby “the Dry land   appeared”."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/68c990a8-998a-4712-87ea-e46ed1a6cf2b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_24","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"3","height":2263,"width":1575,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab007820-6c67-48bc-8dcf-cc0bc9f75e37/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab007820-6c67-48bc-8dcf-cc0bc9f75e37","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2263,"width":1575},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_24","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"3          We arrive at Burlington – and its never to be forgotten & admired Green-bank –   at 8, O’Clock.  This town from its broad main street & general fine street-shade, always   presents the aspect of an agreeable summer residence.     Engage our passage in Budds line for 2 Ds to the shore – Two stages are filled,   besides the opposition line, which has but few.  Our compy is chiefly Friends & genteel.    The road to Mount Holly is still sandy – some gravel if drawn into the ruts would be a   ready & cheap improvement.  Thought much as we rode onward of my boyhood, when   this road was so familiar to me.  feel sorry that time passes – the momentum is all onward   – running off our reel!  We are as surely destined to our hastening end, as doomed   Clough, who has just met his sentence, & whose gloomy Prison, we just look upon at our   arrival at Mount Holly.     Mount Holly!  what thoughts & recollections does it not awaken.  What a joyous   summer did I once pass there!  How changed the place & its inhabitants (very young   friends,) since then – how changed myself!  Then, all the pretty girls were my loves, & all   the best boys were my friends – Now they are all altered"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ab007820-6c67-48bc-8dcf-cc0bc9f75e37/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_25","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"30","height":2237,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5a47e6f1-c20c-4ea5-9085-58db9f30d4e0/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5a47e6f1-c20c-4ea5-9085-58db9f30d4e0","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_25","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"At Downingstown we came to the ancient Ship tavern, existing near what was formerly   called Mill-town by the Downings themselves –     When we arrived at Lancaster – laid out in 1730, we saw all the place alive with   Sleighs – This place is still very primitive in its appearance, having still many brick &   frame houses, of good size too, if only one story high with good porches.  It was 30 years   since I had been here before.  Its first court House & Prison were created upon 300 £ in   “bills of credit” granted by the Provincial Assembly 1729.  It had been at first famous for   its manufacturies of pack-saddles & guns – both articles used by the Indian traders down   to 1760.  It began its iron works in 1726 by Kutz, & in 1728 by Grubb.  The Conestoga   Indians, once the nation near there, continued till the Lancaster massacre of 1764 & then   forever fled.     From Lancaster to Harrisburg, 36 miles, I went by a fine moon light in a four   horse sleigh, & finer riding was never seen. – all this from the same snow which had   fallen two weeks before, & which so soon melted off near Philada!  The Country was in   general very gently undulating all the way to Harrisburg.  Several towns of modern   formation had grown up along the road. – say at Mount Joy, Elizabeth town &   Middletown at the junction of the romantic Swatera with the Susquehannah – Thence for   12 miles we rode along that River which was founded on the other side by its towering &   woody hills - & ourselves, following the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5a47e6f1-c20c-4ea5-9085-58db9f30d4e0/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_26","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"31","height":2237,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7919855e-64f6-403c-a306-a9d8ab5ccbe2/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7919855e-64f6-403c-a306-a9d8ab5ccbe2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_26","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"course of the Pittsburg canal along the Valley, formed by the margin of the River – My   emotions of pleasure, were very strong, in first witnessing the range of this noble River. –   Much I thought of those “Susquehannah Indians”, which but 80 years ago, were still   inhabiting these fine bottoms, as their home.  Here thought I, “it soothes to be where ye   have been” – and I could not but consider that I had been seeing at least the same woods   – including thousands of the same trees upon which they had looked, or under which they   had been shadowed or sheltered! –     Harrisburg is prettily situated along the vale of the Susquehanah – having fine &   picturesque scenery on the opposite side of the river, to which it is united by two very   long bridges (1 mile) of very great elevation over the river. –    (Note:  here follows a sketch of the two bridges in landscape)     In turning the eyes upwards at 7 miles distance we behold the Gap in Peters’   mountains.    (Note:  here follows a sketch of the gap in the river valley hills titled, “The Valley on   which Harrisburgh rests."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7919855e-64f6-403c-a306-a9d8ab5ccbe2/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_27","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"32","height":2237,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00084d4d-b16d-4cc9-a7bb-3179bc9fe31b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00084d4d-b16d-4cc9-a7bb-3179bc9fe31b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_27","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Harrisburgh consists of houses of brick, white frames, & some of logs – generally of   two stories – some fine brick houses are of three stories – Its most picturesque street is   along the river front, & is elevated 3 feet.  The front banks are all open & need some   good trees.  The streets are paved & run at right angles – The Capital & offices are large,   & are fine models of architecture of brick adorned with white porticos & pillars – the   whole situated on a high & broad hill – overlooking the whole town.  There is here a   great deficiency of visible females – none are seen walking the paved footways – and the   great accumulation of man, gives to the whole an air of monastic society, that feels, to   me, like a bereavement. – Had letters to 50 names, & yet all this Does not enliven – The   business of the Legislature seems to engross everything – There is no visible pleasure   among the other sex in sleighing parties; & only the men seem to congregate. – I notice   here the visible influence of power – Here men as Legislators are approached by all with   a subdued courtesey, felt by men seeking for legislative favours, & felt by the others as   men extorting homage & conferring benefits. - It is a strangely artificial state of Society.   – Even the Legislators themselves of opposite sentiments, & deemed hostile, are under its"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/00084d4d-b16d-4cc9-a7bb-3179bc9fe31b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_28","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"33","height":2237,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/22a2fc4b-2211-4566-9b37-d3704c95871f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/22a2fc4b-2211-4566-9b37-d3704c95871f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_28","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"influence, & offer & reciprocate mutual courtship & interested civility. – All seem to vie   to quiet bad feelings, & to cherish those only which may bring their reward in some   accommodation & indulgence in some given question of vote.  As a looker-on, I feel   among them “as a chiel who is taking notes” – Among such I have also to figure. – One   of them has said that I am the most successful “borer” which has been seen, I boreing so   smoothly, that it is not felt” – Another says, “while I disclaim the action of “a lover” I   succeed better, by a flattery so soothing & gentle, as to be half welcome!  What a school   for a courtier, to learn to subdue his passions, & to conform to other men’s prejudices!    Govr Wolf is very cordial & polite.     Wilson’s hotel, where I stay, is very superior.  The table is sumptuous – the   Parlours & chamber carpeted & curtained –     The Legislature meets at 10 & adjourns at 1 o’clock; - but all the rest of the day &   night is passed at the Halls in reading papers, writing letters & negotiations. – This last is   still more effective than debate!  Letters to their constituents is as necessary to keep them   in good humour & advice, as it is to be good law makers, when the business hours occur.     Here is the chair in which the President Hancock sat to declare the Independence   –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/22a2fc4b-2211-4566-9b37-d3704c95871f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_29","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"34","height":2237,"width":1488,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a59dc54a-a3e1-40ab-a1c8-567f1b4e4d95/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a59dc54a-a3e1-40ab-a1c8-567f1b4e4d95","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1488},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_29","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"(Note:  page begins with drawing of chair mentioned on previous page and pencil note   “Thompson Speaker”)    It is a high back mahogany one with a stuffed leather seat:  I sat in it of course. – A   genteel visitor, introduced by a member, goes where he pleases, within the privileged   enclosure.     Being fond of the relics of our forefathers I have made enquiries among the   archives of State, for facts of olden time – The result is, that this very town was an   advanced pioneer settlers place, only 80 years ago. – As late as 1755 Indians marauded   all about the blockhouse & stockade once here as the home of Jno Harris an indian trader,   from whom the ford & ferry, recd his name – He lies interred at the root of the Mulberry   tree to which he had been once tied for burning, by some incensed & drunken indians,   who had their town on the flats, by Paxtang Creek near to him.  I have preserved several   facts on the subject of this man & his family, calculated to give interest now, by its   relation to the present seat of Government here.     On the 18 Jany, I went up to Duncans Isld. once called the big & the little Island,   near Clarke’s ferry, once called Queenashawakee & visited as such by any of Fort Allen   & Fort Augusta, by * C L Ports & sunday Indians on a mision to Pittsburg (Fort   DuQuesne) in 1758. – At this place is a great Dam made across the Susquehannah &      Marginal note: * Sunbury"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a59dc54a-a3e1-40ab-a1c8-567f1b4e4d95/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_30","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"35","height":2237,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/563b00e8-dfd5-41b2-b29e-6a714af81d89/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/563b00e8-dfd5-41b2-b29e-6a714af81d89","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_30","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"meeting at its distant and the mouth of the Juniata once spelled Coniata. – It was once a   great fording place, & at or near it, Jno Harris had also his trading house in 1733. as told   by the Indians. – The scenery here, & before reaching it, is all wildly picturesque & grand   – Here the blue mountains are broken through by the River & form a Gap –    (Note:  here follows a drawing of the above described Gap.)    amidst these mountains on the River side, is now situated McAllisters large stone house,   upon the very site of what was Fort Hunter – so called I presume, after the same Gen   Hunter, who made an incursion up Shearmans Creek & vally, not far below Duncans Isld.   “Shearmans” is a name called after Shearman a trader who lost his life & his horse, by   crossing its mouth with his packs of furs – Similar ranges of mountains as above occurs   up near the said Island - & looking from Duncan’s house from my chamber window they   look thus    (Note:  here follows a drawing of the above described view with a note, “for 6 weeks no   Sunshine.”)"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/563b00e8-dfd5-41b2-b29e-6a714af81d89/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_31","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"36","height":2237,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82165777-cd60-46c6-a873-9a6d4032dcc4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82165777-cd60-46c6-a873-9a6d4032dcc4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_31","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"In turning the eye in an opposite direction – up the Juniata it looks thus – viz –    (Note:  here follows a drawing of the above described view.)    The River was all frozen over, & we passed on the Icce in a sleigh – very near to where   there is a great Viaduct, leading-over the great Canal up the Juniata to Pittsburgh –     At Duncans Island, I was well entertd by the landlady, Mrs Duncan, a genteel &   middle aged widow; - & such was our mutual interest that she would take no pay – She   was descended of the Swedish family of Hulings’ who came in her Grt grdfather’s time,   from Marcus hook - & the cultivation of all this fine island, was in the family of her   husband’s forefather. – This place was full of indian associations – In 1755 all the people   in the Cove, called the Irish settlemt, at the mouth of Shearmans Creek, were massacred -    About the same time Mrs Duncans Grd mother Huling crossed the Susquehannah on a   horse with her two children & fled down to Fort Hunter – a place of shelter which all   sought in case of alarm.  On this island I saw the place of the mound at the angle of the   Canal near to the great bridge, out of which were taken hundreds of cartloads of"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82165777-cd60-46c6-a873-9a6d4032dcc4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_32","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"37","height":2237,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0bda7774-603e-44f8-a4cd-f763393b776e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0bda7774-603e-44f8-a4cd-f763393b776e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_32","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"human bones & used as filling-in materials for one of the bastions or shoulders of the   Dam.  What a sacrilege! There were there also many beads & trinkets – Indian remains   are found all over the island when digging the cours of the Canal through it – I shall   never forget this visit & the widow, & its agreeable associations.  Large trees were   growing upon the mound which seemed  to indicate the Sepulture of some former race.     Mrs Berryhill had her husband scalped & killed.  She herself got off to Fort   Hunter     Esther Harris – relative & perhaps daughter, or even sister, of Jno Harris (it was   said*) was famous in Indian days, as being a well known Indian trader who dwelt upon a   white rock very conspicuous at a distance situated nearly opposite some point at the   middle of the Big Island – At her place all indians & traders descending the   Susquehannah, used to stop for refreshments.  She made money, & finally it is said built   the old brick house below McAllisters, now owned by Carsons.  She had great fame for   her masculine powers & prowess, & her dexterity in managing boats on the river.     I started from the island in a Sleigh on the Ice with Wm Lindley, to visit his   places & concerns in Shearmans Valley, so called, consistg of Furnace, Forge, Grist   Mills, woods-farms &c having many log-houses newly erected for workmen.  We rode   about for 7 miles, around the sides of mountains & rivulets – up & down continually, &   yet such a hilly place & so rugged, was called a valley!  Surely I must consult my   Dictionary again for the      Marginal note: * she was his wife."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/0bda7774-603e-44f8-a4cd-f763393b776e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_33","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"38","height":2237,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/92859713-23f2-4306-ada0-ae5d7e873c78/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/92859713-23f2-4306-ada0-ae5d7e873c78","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_33","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"term – I thought it might have meant a plain, but I find that here it means the hills in the   midst of long ranges of high mountains – An iron master’s establishment presents a   whole community of itself; & this occasion of the establishment is a new era of life &   animation to these secluded regions.     When arrived at the house of Jacob Lindley, I found intelligent & educated men   & women, & such a table of good things, where nothing grows by culture, seemed   Strange, - especially as I expected that Deer & even bear meat might be common!  We   had on the Evening table a service of plate – Coffee & tea – Toast, Rusk – Doenuts &   bread – Sausages broiled dry beef – veal cutlet & shad! –     There is a real “leather-stockings” here, of the name of Stewart – he has killed, 20   years ago 63 deer in one season.  He goes out in Snow time in preference, & lays in the   snow all night – Deer are still frequent – I saw several tracks in the snow – some few   bears occur – Turkeys & Pheasants still exist. – In Shearmans Creek, which runs before   the house, are many red-head ducks – large Trout & Salmon – the latter worth at Carlisle   & Harrisburg 1 Dr each! –    (Note:  here follows a drawing titled, “Jacob Lindley’s on small hill- in Perry County –”)"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/92859713-23f2-4306-ada0-ae5d7e873c78/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_34","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"39","height":2237,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e7ac1ed8-d91a-4a47-add7-a1078bc3e507/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e7ac1ed8-d91a-4a47-add7-a1078bc3e507","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_34","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"This Mr Lindley, Gt Grd Father, was the first iron master in Penna – came from   Durham in England & settled first at a place of that name high up the Delaware - & from   the kind of boats used from thence, called Durham boats in Philada –      Six years ago, there were not more than three wagons used in all Shearmans   Valley – all the business of here – and also of other new settlements, even now, were   done all the year round upon sleds – even now the poorer people still draw sleds on the   ground! –     Mr Murphy who died in this valley in 1830; aged nearly an hundred years, where   he had lived a long life even among the indians, related many facts to Mrs Linley – such   as seeing the first wagon arrive at Carlisle, & the wonder & the indignation it excited   among the packers. – even the widening of the roads when first ordered, offended them   as spoiling their trade!  The pack horses used to carry bars of iron on their backs, crooked   over & around their bodies - barrels were hung across them – one on each side.  She   remembered the first Indian tract to go westd, was to cross at Simpsons 4 miles below   John Harris’ (now Harrisburg) – then across the Conadogynet at Middlesex – thence up   the Mountain & crossed Croghans Gap (now Sterretts) thence down the Mountain &   crossed Shearmans creek at Gibsons, then by Dicks Gap – then by head of Shearmans   Vally by Concord, to the burnt cabbins – thence to the waters of the Alleghany & down   the River –     Shearmans Valley is named from our Indian trader who lost his life at the mouth   of it in fording his horse & furs – he had three partners – Croghan was one, forefather of   our admired Colo Croghan – A Gap is called after him –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e7ac1ed8-d91a-4a47-add7-a1078bc3e507/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_35","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"4","height":2238,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fe39f8de-3a01-4c00-acc9-3f43ded20acd/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fe39f8de-3a01-4c00-acc9-3f43ded20acd","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2238,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_35","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"mothers or fathers – some dead – some decayed.  “Sie transit Gloria mundi”!  - The house   of Majr Cox, where I staid, had lost its owners – the children were scattered, and Aliens,   that knew not me had possession.     “Tis sadly pleasing, when life’s morn is past   To visit scenes to early fondness dear.”!    To see again & contemplate,     “Each wonted haunt & scene of youthful joy   Where merriment had cheer’d the careless boy.”     Remained an hour & a half in Mt Holly – called on Eliza Cox – Mrs Davidson &   Geo Haywoods’ families - *     We arrived at Vincent town at about 11, O’Clock – a place about half the sise of   Mt Holly – it is built on Sand & is sadly deficient in Trees.  There our forehorses slippd   off their fastening to the tongue & made off, hurting themselves & scaring us – It   detained us an hour – The same horses when recivd went very well all day.  Soon after   our departure from this place, we leave the farms & signs of cultivation & enter into the   Woods of Oaks & Pines – closing close up to our wheels, & marking our character of ride   all the way down to the Shore – No fences appeard in the road side unless here & there   “few & far between”, where some little cottage marks a clearing, as a place for stopping,   or an Inn – No houses are whitened or painted – Pass through      Marginal note: * In the year 1837 – Sept 2/5 I spent 3 days in Mt. Holly – going there   purposely to see & talk & stay with my early friend James Eakin.  Our acquaintance   began there in the Fever of 1798, and many were the images of past events which we   revived.  Some were delightful & some melancholy – especially our visit to the Grave   ground where we read the names of well remembered companions.  We went together   everywhere – coupled together like Juno’s Swans. – All made us welcome –.  It was a   visit affording grateful recollections long to be remembered, and perhaps to be repeated –   health & time permitting."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fe39f8de-3a01-4c00-acc9-3f43ded20acd/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_36","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"40","height":2237,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1de1dbd7-72eb-4fdd-b631-76c52e5bd2bc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1de1dbd7-72eb-4fdd-b631-76c52e5bd2bc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2237,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_36","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Close in sight of Jacob Lindleys, is a run ~~ a narrow Glen called Stillmans – named   after two brothers Jno & Wm, who lived there wholly by hunting & fishing, & who went   off to Ohio 50 yrs ago because their business began to fail – no ordinary work would suit   them –     Mrs Murphy well remembered the massacre of the irish settlement in the Great   Cove at the mouth of Shermans creek – all were destroyed – She also remembered when   Genl Hunter came up the valley & fell upon the Indians & was defeated; but afterwards,   the mounted rangers came, & killed 26 Indians at Souse’s  - McCrackens family was   killed & carried for exposure to Philada; Hamiltons family was also killed, in the valley     It was here in the valley that I was told of a curious relic – Wm Penn’s iron spur is   in the family of Levis Pennock in London Grove C.Co. havg been left there when Penn   was on his visit to the Susquehannah below Columbia.     In the morning after breakfast I left the hospitable & agreeable family of Jacob   Lindley in a Sleigh with his brother Wm – going to Carlisle 13 miles distant – it was a   rugged country, but still called the valley, & we crossed the creek (called Shearmans)   three times on the ice – Such Creeks would cost thousands of dollars for bridges over   them in Phda Co, but here they are deemed good enough as they are – There were houses   & farms of rough appearance often seen along our ride, & when we assended"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1de1dbd7-72eb-4fdd-b631-76c52e5bd2bc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_37","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"41","height":2188,"width":1438,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/98a089cd-3806-495f-9b17-2265aed1a9eb/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/98a089cd-3806-495f-9b17-2265aed1a9eb","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2188,"width":1438},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_37","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the Pine hill, we saw a fine country of farms below us – The ranges of mountains, present   & distant were numerous – all very romantic & picturesque – but when we at length   ascended the Blue mountn range which divides Perry from Cumberland Cnty oh what a   grand view of valley met my eye on the Cumberland side, reaching from the mountn   where I stood, called Croghans Cap, (meaning a lower pass than the genl mountn top*)  & from this I could see across to another range of equal mention having a valley of 20 to   22 miles of farms laying between – In this fine country lies Carlisle, & Dickenson   College; - & on our way thither we passed by the “Sulphur Springs” & its range of white   painted boarding houses – it being a place of some resort of Compy in the Summer.  In   two hours ride of good sleighing we reach Carlisle – built or began in 1750, & once noted   for its “Beavar Dams”, probably formed out of the Creed Le Fort – named after James Le   Fort once noted as a French trader & interpreter as early as 1712 – This was once his   frontier. – When this town was so began, the Shawnese to whom it was a home – at “the   Beaver pond” moved off – But “Doctr John” an Indian who continued there with his   family, were all killed in 1760 – It was deemed a vile & unoffending murder.      Marginal note: * there is here a mountain house by Clark where I wrote my name."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/98a089cd-3806-495f-9b17-2265aed1a9eb/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_38","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"42","height":2213,"width":1538,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5fb0cecc-3f8c-4b47-b767-b0153456b2ed/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5fb0cecc-3f8c-4b47-b767-b0153456b2ed","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2213,"width":1538},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_38","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Carlisle is a good looking town – having streets at right angles – good houses – foot   pavements – some conspicuous Churches – a public square & market - & the well known   Dickenson-Stone College, still destitute of trees, for shade or ornament.  Here I visited   the rooms & thought of sending there my Son or Sons. – visited Dr Mahan & wife –   Started in the Stage at 1 O:Clock, back for Harrisburg – saw in Carlisle, the site now   Chamberlains Hotel, at the Corner where Oliver Pollock once owned. – conversed about   him with Mr McGinnis & Noble – Was directed how to find Mr Pollocks country residce   the Silver Springs * - a place traversing the turnpike from a grand Spring under ground a   mile off, & by the road side working a mill producing a rental of 2000 Ds a year -  The   white Stone plastered house in which O Pollock lived & died is a little distance off down   a Dale & near to a large barn.  The house is 2 stories on the side next to the hill & 3   stories at the other – He had built a still layer house of stone & more modern in style   upon the side of a hill, nearer by the side of the Turnpike – It was ascended      Marginal note: *now Briggs’ – 11 miles from Carlisle."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5fb0cecc-3f8c-4b47-b767-b0153456b2ed/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_39","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"43","height":2213,"width":1475,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82374f36-dddb-4469-8d63-79ba802f3e9b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82374f36-dddb-4469-8d63-79ba802f3e9b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2213,"width":1475},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_39","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"by a flight of steps into a long Piazza – on the whole a Country looking place – a church   & school house is near, & the distant Blue Mountn forever in view. – All these facts I   have thus described very soberly; but oh! how very much I felt the force of powerful &   grateful recollections of her who was once its inmate, who was so comely, attractive,   polite & educated – But Lucetta is gone – she is enshrined in Earth - & my Lucetta, too,   named after her, is also among the spirits of Eternity!  I rode from thence filled with   silent musings – arrived back to the seat of Government at 4 O’Clock in the afternoon, &   passed over a long & very surprising Bridge structure over the whole width of the   Susquehannah - & thus I close, for the present –     The State Capital is on an area of 4 Acres given by Jno Harris the 2d –     Paxton creek runs along the rear of the town close by the Canal - & at the base of   the high grounds which range along its borders, often broken into ravines – The yards for   Coal & for building boats are there – also for lumber, staves & poles &c –     (Note:  here follows a drawing of the bridge across Paxton Creek titled “view in rear of   Harrisbg.”)    The houses here are remarkable for having a gallery out of the 2d Story in the back   buildings for hanging up Clothes!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/82374f36-dddb-4469-8d63-79ba802f3e9b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_40","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"44","height":2200,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dacfa25d-13fa-47b1-883e-192e2d6ebc8c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dacfa25d-13fa-47b1-883e-192e2d6ebc8c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2200,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_40","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"(Note:  this page begins with a drawing with the notation to its side, “John Harris Jr house   of lime stone built in 1766 – stands fronting the River bank. So End. -)    a great deal of the facts which I have gathered concerning John Harris, & the settlement   of Harrisburg in 1783, I have prepared in another Book for the use of some future   publication –     At the end of two weeks, I set out on my return home, by way of Lancaster – The   snow had disappeared & our ride was in the Stage, and served me as a good occasion on   the same road to revive the recollection of former places – I concluded that the   succession of towns & the very numerous Country houses – generally of logs or of   Stones, made it a very “thickly settled” road way.     I remained at Lancaster, all night & a part of next day.  The time I employed in   enquiries as to the original First Tavern & earliest house in Lancaster.  It happened to be   on the site of the very Hotel (Slaymakers) where I was stopping – now in the tenure of   Parker.  What is curious to tell the Host although a six years resident there, did not know   the real interest of his own premises!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/dacfa25d-13fa-47b1-883e-192e2d6ebc8c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_41","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"45","height":2238,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b558b72f-ad6f-448b-986f-98b671ff89e9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b558b72f-ad6f-448b-986f-98b671ff89e9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2238,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_41","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"I had before known that it was a long two story house of squared logs of hickory, &   called then hickory house, of Gibson’s - & having a hickory tree on the sign & a large   hickory tree near the present Court house, where the nation of Indian calling themselves   the hickory people, held their councils.  On enquiry for these things, I was gratified to   hear from Colo Sluegh and elderly gentlm who was a boarder, that his mother was a   Gibson & that his forefathers dwelt in & around these very premises & the two story log   house adjoining westd. on East King Street, and then he took me into the yard, & there in   a cellar showed me the original spring for which the first Inn was always famous!     Lancaster is a town of good buildings of brick, stone & logs – The latter are now   generally weather boarded & hid & painted white.  The Court house is in the Centre of   the town at the intersection of 4 Streets, which descend from it severally as from a hill.  I   liked the undulating Streets.  One of its Church Steeples is like Christ Church in Philada   – Its people are rich.  This place for several years, was preeminent for making and   finishing superior rifles for the Western settlers & Indians.  They also made & furnished   pack saddles for the carriers westward."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b558b72f-ad6f-448b-986f-98b671ff89e9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_42","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"46","height":2225,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fe6dea43-4205-4857-8cb0-20eed0c76f7c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fe6dea43-4205-4857-8cb0-20eed0c76f7c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_42","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"It was once the largest inland town in the UStates.  It is surrounded by an excellent   country – The “Indians town” of the Conestoguis is 9 miles distant on the creek of that   name & at one mile above its mouth into the Susqh     I saw in Lancaster a singularly antiquated Log house – a real primitive, in So   Queen St next to Reigerts big mansion, “formed to shame the humble shed”.  As I stood   sketching it, the Dutch woman came to the door & wondered at my curiosity  Lancaster   was founded in 1730 –    (Note:  here follows a drawing of the above mentioned log house titled “Queen St Hill”)       We started for Philada in the forenoon cars - & by a rapid rate of going reached Philada   at 4 o,Clo. & in a couple hours more, I was again at home in the bosom of my family, &   greeted with many hearty welcomes & fond remembrances, - the truest attractions of   Home –     Those who may come after me, & may travel over the same scenes, may love to   go over scenes thus “where I have been” –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fe6dea43-4205-4857-8cb0-20eed0c76f7c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_43","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"47","height":2175,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fdd5f137-6355-47d3-a636-944ed539aeeb/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fdd5f137-6355-47d3-a636-944ed539aeeb","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2175,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_43","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"“Collectors”    P.S. Supplement –     I take this occasion, to draw up a brief description of some of those incidents   which were wont to illustrate the travels of those young clerks & apprentices of the   Philada merchts who were y’clept “Collectors” – even within the brief period of my own   memory – They were in full operation & service even as late as the year 1800, & even   some half a dozen years later.  To exhibit a specimen of the trade of Philada as it then   existed, & the rudeness of inland travelling westward, I have only to set down the facts of   a cotemporary my friend C.J.W. -     At the beginning of this Century (the Yr 1800) he was still “a prentice hand” in   one of the Six or Eight only great Notables, as Dry good importing Stores then in Philada.   – They consisted of Wister & Ashtons, Fries, & Chancellor, in High St; & of Hartshorne   & Large, Thomson, & Field, in Front St. – All besides these, were comprised in the little   world of small dealers below them – At that time all their remittances from the West,   came in “hand dollars”, & were generally card"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/fdd5f137-6355-47d3-a636-944ed539aeeb/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_44","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"48","height":2175,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a09e63b2-df36-4d45-9f21-553542e6b2ff/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a09e63b2-df36-4d45-9f21-553542e6b2ff","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2175,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_44","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"to the Banks for deposit – Like the iron money of Lycurgos, - in wheelbarrows! – These   large dealers had their regular seasons of Country collection – in mid winter, & in mid   summer.  ‘Twas in the former season that my friend once started from Philada to go by   Harrisburg & Carlisle to the Westward & to Virga as the Collector of one of the houses   before named.  He was mounted on horse back – wrapped up in a Great Fearnought over   Coat – His legs & feet muffled up in “Woolen “leggings” & “over shoes” – It was a mild   time for the Season, - so mild that the frost was out of the Ground - & the roads were bad,   beyond conception, to the present race of travellers – [For instance we have known it to   be a fact that four hours have been consumed in coming by the road from Philad to   Germantn – the saddle horse sinking to the knees & deeper in many places, before the   Turnpike was made – At the hill at Germantn, it was much steeper than now - & so   narrow as to admit of but one carriage at a time – It was the practice there, even for the   Stage to let out their passengers at the Hill to walk up - & all wagoners united their teams   to draw up loaded wagons]  People in Germantn could have set their tables before their   doors & have eaten unmolested & almost unseen before the year 1793 –     Our traveller had been carefully forewarned to keep a good look out for the   ripples at “the fording places” – The numerous good bridges which now traverse all our   streams & creeks, present no idea of former difficulties –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a09e63b2-df36-4d45-9f21-553542e6b2ff/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_45","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"49","height":2175,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6b10358-9e6c-4ee4-a893-632cff4bda97/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6b10358-9e6c-4ee4-a893-632cff4bda97","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2175,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_45","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Our Collector, being thus sufficiently alarmed with the dread of creeks which might   drown – was awake to every new sound, & being benighted before reaching Potts grove,   & hearing some gurgling sound, near a Creek, he roared out lustily to the Cottage, by the   way side, for the particulars concerning the crossing; - they assured him it was very safe   & very low; but ah! said he how shall I get over them Falls?  What Falls! cried they!    Why them which I hear? - You hear nothing! Then what can it be that sounds so much   like falling waters? – It is only this Spring, falling from the Spout into the Water Trough   used for the Cattle &c!!     When he got to near Harrisburg, in crossing the Swatara, he met with an old   Customer in the form of a Widow, who had got a young husband in the person of a   German musician – The Lady was extremely afraid of fording, & as our young traveller    had acquired some skill, he offered to lead in the way, if they would follow in their old   fashioned Chair – The offer was accepted, & they went on very well until about the   middle of the Creek, when lo! the horse – having been imperfectly braced at the Collar,   actually walked out of his gears, drawing out the Groom, by the reins into the Water, -   letting down the shafts"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f6b10358-9e6c-4ee4-a893-632cff4bda97/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_46","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"5","height":2238,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/86f7e733-00ae-45d6-ac11-5d5063cc2c2e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/86f7e733-00ae-45d6-ac11-5d5063cc2c2e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2238,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_46","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"the Grouse plains – are high & covered with low oak & pine pushes stunted – 4 to 5 miles   across – Our horses travel well – the roads are level – our conversation lively & agreeable   – sometimes amusing & facetious – at this our companion Mr E Littell is always   efficient.  My wife enjoyed it all; & this was full a half of my enjoyment.  Our ride by   delays was prolonged, so that we only reached Hutson Busby’s house, by the shore of   Manahawkin, after night.  There we supped & lodged well, unvexed by musquitoes.     On the morning of Thursday we crossed over to the beach in the ferry boat to   breakfast.  The distance was about 3 miles – the morning cool & the sea air delightful.    Was hailed & welcomed at our landing by J M Broome & J J Smith – found their families   there, - also {      } M Buckley – Geo Stewartson & others – a good company of about 70   persons –     “The Mansion of Health”, looks thus –    (Note:  here follows a pencil drawing of the mansion, in much more and finer detail than   in all previous journals.)"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/86f7e733-00ae-45d6-ac11-5d5063cc2c2e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_47","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"50","height":2175,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2b3bd172-14ef-4d13-a5f5-6399764cf920/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2b3bd172-14ef-4d13-a5f5-6399764cf920","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2175,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_47","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"in the Water, & leaving the lady screaming with fright in her chair – In the meantime,   their treasure in a trunk in the forepart of the Chair, was floating down the Stream – Time   & money was lost to secure help & to regain the trunk!  [At this distance from the City,   all the way to Pittsburgh was at that time (so modern) without bridges -]     Harrisburg at which he next arrived, was a small & rude affair, compared with   present improvement & enlargement.  The crossing of the Susquehannah was then   occasionally a terrible affair – He had actually to remain nine days to get even a chance   to pass amidst the rushing ice – When he did start, the boat got umanageble among the   floating masses [Ice 20 inchs thick was frozen to the bottom of the Scow] and floated   some miles down the stream – Judge Breckenbridge was onboard, & was very hearty in   his prayers in one or two of their perils.     On another journey the same young traveller, went from Harrisburg up the   Susquehannah to Northumberland &c in the mid-Summer – There were scarcely any   houses or even travellers visible then – They saw no house, save"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2b3bd172-14ef-4d13-a5f5-6399764cf920/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_48","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"51","height":2225,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/aa84e3ba-a73f-4589-88e6-d41bddbf1a89/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/aa84e3ba-a73f-4589-88e6-d41bddbf1a89","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_48","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"McAllisters (at Fort Hunter) until he had got a distance of about 17 miles, when he came   to a Ferry, which was managed by women deeply sunburned & of ruined complexion by   agues & fevers – He thence travelled up to Shamokin in the Western side of the Susquehh   – without meeting or expecting to meet a single soul in the rout.  Old Deviller, a very   rough innkeeper at the Foot of the Mackonoy mountain, presented the only House of   cheering in all the way to Northumbd.     On one occasion of travelling, beyond Carlisle the passage of the Yellow-  breeches Creek was so swollen -; as to stop the passengers, for some days.  He at length   procured a man who for the consideratn of four dollars, contrived to set him over at a   place at about a mile above the ford – He used a canoe to which he tied the horse & swam   him – he then took off the wheels of his sulkey & the body, & ferried them over   separately –     Carlisle was then remarkable for its religious strickness, & especially in its deep   silence in the streets & at the Inns on the Sabbaths.  Scotch Presbytns.     At York, there were some 3 or 4 remarkable store keepers – having such prompt   command of money, as to be always ready to pay the Cash, and"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/aa84e3ba-a73f-4589-88e6-d41bddbf1a89/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_49","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"52","height":2225,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b789e5f6-9eb6-45fb-87ea-d371be8686f5/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b789e5f6-9eb6-45fb-87ea-d371be8686f5","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_49","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"claim their discounts – John Haller, who was one of them, thought nothing, rich as he   was, to walk all the way to Philada to make his purchases – His practice was to reach   Lancaster in his first day; the next day he would be in the Philada stores by 4 O’Clock in   the afternoon! – in all 84 miles!     Sometimes these tours extended to the far West – at other times through the   Western parts of Virga & No Carolina – As in those times, there were no Stages & no   Banks inland, there were of course no means of remittances, & therefore the Collectors   were expectd to call generally upon their Customers – When they had succeeded to   gather their silver in quantities, they bought pack-horses to serve as their carriers – each   horse taking bags containing two thousand dollars, placed upon little wooden Saddles   formed much in the shape of a Sawyer’s wood-horse & set upon the horses’ backs –   These horses when arrived at Philad were sold – It was in this way you could sometimes   see officers of the Western army “coming in to the settlements” – And in this way of   travelling we can remember when the present Philip, King of France, with his brothers   mounted on horse back, with a following pack horse, rode out of Philad, along High St   going to the far West by way of Pittsburgh! –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b789e5f6-9eb6-45fb-87ea-d371be8686f5/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_50","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"53","height":2225,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a2260ef-324c-40b4-a306-d51cc0f26ef1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a2260ef-324c-40b4-a306-d51cc0f26ef1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_50","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"We might justly be surprised now to contemplate a houng man quite alone with his 4 or   5 horses laden with Silver, traversing the lonely wilds of our Woods & Allegheney   mountains, unmolested by robbers & almost without fear – No accidents occurred – Men   were more honest – The pack horses used to be unladen at nights & the silver stored   away in solitary log houses as Inns, where none might tell the tale of murder & yet all   went free -!  The traveller had indeed his pistols, more for show than use – one case of   much alarm did occur – passing through a long range of Wilderness, were the horseroad   was chiefly marked by stones set up on the crotches of the Trees – he discovered a face   peeping from behind a tree; - the thought was, that he intended to fire – the pistol was   cocked, & the pack horses shouted on – the face peeped again & again from tree to tree in   a kind of pursuit – The explanation at the next stopping place was, that he was a   simpleton who sometimes so acted to travellers.     The foregoing facts, so wholly unlike the present, when we go every where by   Canals or by Rail Cars or Swift Stages, are those set down now – at the end of 33 years,   to mark the striking changes which so swiftly occur –             1835 -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/6a2260ef-324c-40b4-a306-d51cc0f26ef1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_51","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"54","height":2225,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/afc9a750-9fc5-4527-8425-2b41ca35b3f1/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/afc9a750-9fc5-4527-8425-2b41ca35b3f1","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_51","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Notices at & concerning Harrisburg.         March 1835.          I made a 2d visit to the place and spent the whole of the Month of March there, &   from a wish to avoid the great throng & bustle of Wilson’s Hotel, I took my lodgings in   the boarding house of the two Miss Ann & Eliza Elder’s – young ladies of respectable   families, - left in their early years without a father.  These were grand daughters of the   Revd Mr Elder Pastor of the first Paxtang church –     As the weather has approached towards the spring the ladies go more abroad &   give life to the town.  There is no loving without their presence, - even when unknown.    The chief Belles are Miss Haldeman, Miss Elder, Misses Peacock, Misses Aldricks &   Miss Briggs &c –     There are many well built Churches here – several with showey steeples &   towers.     The Canal & Bason back of the town, present daily busy scenes.     Politics are too prevalent as a common discussion in families – it does not become   the pretty lips of the pretty ladies; but all take an interest in the changes of these officers,   whose persons & families, form their neighbours.  They are visited too, by members, who   make their chief Talk about their business of the day.     The People here are hospitable enough to the right kind of people.  It cannot be   grateful to open house to all.     They keep up the use of porches & benches – along"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/afc9a750-9fc5-4527-8425-2b41ca35b3f1/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_52","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"55","height":2225,"width":1450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/27a83c8d-982f-4721-820e-c6a84fbc3c7b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/27a83c8d-982f-4721-820e-c6a84fbc3c7b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_52","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"their front doors – They have the very air of neighbourly intercourse.     There’s not much of the Irish or dutch tongue heard in the streets. – Largely   stocked Stores –     They cultivate instrumental music & have very good amateur parties.  They sing   well in the churches.     The Taverns are said to have secret Gambelling rooms, wherein professed   gamblers corrupt the town.     One cannot but think how very different are all things now, from what they were   eighty years ago, when John Harris the 2.d wrote to the Govr & Council, that he was then   opening Port holes for defence of his house against the dreaded Indians, & when his   constituted the only house.  Then wild turkies were very abundant & bears & deer could   be often seen swimming the river.     The Arks & rafts which are seen – 8 to 10 at a time passing the town at the end of   March, are interesting objects, as they show the industry & skill of the back settlers.     I went on one of these arks down to the Connewague falls (14 miles) & went   through them – going a mile in four minutes through the raging, roaring, & white capped   waves.  It is a moving place – surprising & exciting apprehension.  It is but 40 years ago   since they were first tried for purposes of navigation – Several have been wrecked there –   not much use of them was made till after the year 1800. – Before that time the landing at   Middletown town point was used as the great place of deposit.  That place is now much   filled with lumber & sundry houses.  There is there several interesting aqueducts &   Canals – The great feeder which they are just now constructing along the River side, is a   very expensive job     Two bears were killed this winter up at McAllisters only 7 miles distant.  This   was strange even here.           How well it is to keep this picture of the things I’ve seen!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/27a83c8d-982f-4721-820e-c6a84fbc3c7b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_53","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"6","height":2263,"width":1562,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1f98f294-5322-456c-9e07-d4707412c9d9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1f98f294-5322-456c-9e07-d4707412c9d9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2263,"width":1562},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_53","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"The Mansion of health – extends about 120 feet – 90 feet of it is new built.  It stands   about 1/8th of a mile from the surf.  half the distance would be better.  The original house   was once at half the distance & had numerous Cedar & oak trees nigh by – But the house   is long since down - & the “Sept gale” of 1821, swept over the island & tore up or blew   over the trees so that none now remain nigh – the stumps are seen.  Many trees & shrubs   still remain on the northern part of this island – It is 20 miles long from Tuckers inlet up   to Barnegat inlet.  Our house is 6 miles from the latter & about 12 miles northward from   “the Compy house” –     We soon make our plunge into the invigorating Surf.  The ladies visit it in an ox-  waggon, drove by a lad – In such a drive, they look so rustic & free & easy, that I feel   disposed here to preserve a sketch –      (Note:  Here follows a finely executed pencil drawing of women wearing bonnets in an   ox wagon.)    We generally bathe twice a day severally – and sometimes thrice for special reasons –     On Friday morning sundry of us made a sailboat excursion down the sound, to the"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1f98f294-5322-456c-9e07-d4707412c9d9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_54","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"7","height":2263,"width":1562,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/26dbe5b6-b5e6-44c5-87e3-4ceb6ae8c5ab/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/26dbe5b6-b5e6-44c5-87e3-4ceb6ae8c5ab","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2263,"width":1562},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_54","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"“Company House” 12 miles off.  It is kept in good style & had about 40 boarders – Is   much enlarged & improved since I was there 10 years before.  Some of our compy   remained to dine, & three of us resolved to walk home to our dinners along the sea beaten   strand. – We off shoes & padded our way back barefooted, just keeping the margin of the   wetted sand, watered by the invading surf.  Nothing could feel more grateful – so cooling   & so refreshing: – though the distance was 12 miles, - it was readily performed in 2 ho &   35 m , –     “Along thy sounding shore I rove & count   Thy crested billows in their ceaseless play”!    But our pleasures were not without their alley – It was found, next day, that two of us,   who had rolled up our trousers to guard them from wet, had exposed our bare legs to   “Sun scald” – a new desease to us which became painful & swoln, & marred our future   meditated gambols.  Mr Littell who let his trousers drabble, escaped & laughed at his   exemption – Rye meal & hogs lard used as a poultice extracts the fire if applied timely.    As it was, Stewartson & I, lost our skins by the blisters! – We must walk another day to   do it better!"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/26dbe5b6-b5e6-44c5-87e3-4ceb6ae8c5ab/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_55","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"8","height":2225,"width":1463,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/27d6c421-6061-4c07-9543-a271d14e38f9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/27d6c421-6061-4c07-9543-a271d14e38f9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1463},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_55","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Being, in some measure laid up after this affair in Dry dock, I could only look on    contemplate the more.  I liked to get down to the Seaside & seated under the arbour, look   out upon the Ocean & the Surf.  Sometimes I was meditative & solemn, & thought –   “thou speaks’t – God thou solemn holy Sea” – then thought of Addison’s finest hymn –   “The spacious firmament on high, with all the blue ethereal sky” &c – Sometimes I fell   into enlivening conversation & instructive, with Mr Broome, or Littell – anon I was   watching the invading billows – they came ashore like platoons of invaders, send ashore   their roar of discharged missiles, & then recede in mist & vapour, like the storming of a   Bastion.  Sometimes, I think & wonder at what could have been all the features of this   place before Civilization & European eyes scanned this island.  I peopled it in   imagination with indians, seeking here & finding a safe Summer home for their   unrestricted supply of fish – shell fish – birds & eggs – in these sounds they had often   {   } for sheep head, of whom we learnt the art of bobbing – even now practiced here by   night & torch. – Sometimes, I meditated on the memories of wrecks along the strand –   one close by, was always a text at hand –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/27d6c421-6061-4c07-9543-a271d14e38f9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_56","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"9","height":2225,"width":1425,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b79c5eba-f6bd-4ae2-82d1-b67c3eeb216f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b79c5eba-f6bd-4ae2-82d1-b67c3eeb216f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2225,"width":1425},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4ad84dfc-9e9b-4b5e-b7a8-ecd3540a2d00/canvas/_56","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"“Thou old & wave-worn wreck  What stories thou may’st tell  Of many a mourn’d & gallant heart  Sunk in the tempest swell”.    I was surprised to learn from old Stephen Inman – one of the 12 family islanders of the   place – himself aged 78 years – that he & his family have never ceased to be whale   catchers – along this Coast.  They devote themselves to it in Feb & March – generally   catch 2 or 3 of a Season, so as to average 40 to 50 Blls oil apiece.  I saw their look-out   mast – Their chaldron & furnace for rendering the oil – their whole boats &c.  Has taken   some whales of 90 Blls of oil.  The whale bones of large size lay about bleaching in the   sun – There are many Oak & Holly trees about his part of the island.  Gunners go there   much, in the season for Geese & Ducks – Inman had killed 24 geese in a day.  His house   is fully cut with names of his Gunner visitors.  Sheep, mules & horses are pastured &   browsed here –     The coasting trade along these shores must be great – sometimes we could count   20 sails all going onward to Eastward or Southd – Their white sails looked like villas set   along a high way –"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b79c5eba-f6bd-4ae2-82d1-b67c3eeb216f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7f664adb-f967-40d7-ac22-0586017be9b8/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}