profitable lowness: blessed be his name for ever and ever!

day had a meeting at Center, to which many were gathered, wherein was preached the tes The soil of the Jerseys towards the east is timony of Truth in a good degree of heavenly very barren, but abounds with cedar-swamps life and power; thanksgiving and praise be and pine-trees, much made use of for building. given to Him who gives strength and power The timber in the northern part, which is to do it. Fifth-day attended a very large mountainous, is oak of various kinds, some of meeting at Wilmington: the chief part of the which are three, four, five and six feet over; inhabitants of this town, which is a very imblack walnut, commonly called in Old Eng-proving one, are under our denomination. In land Virginia walnut, much used by joiners this meeting I gave way to fear, and disfor desks, drawers, tables, coffins, &c.; pop-couragement prevailing, I let go that faith lar, hickory, chesnut, ash, beech, sassafras, which before I had known to be my support, with swamp bushes of various kinds, as the and without which we are not able to please bay, magnolia, white and black alder, sumach God. At this place live Elizabeth Shipley of divers kinds; one of which, called the swamp sumach, is of so poisonous a nature that even handling it will so poison a person's flesh as to blind them. Peaches they have in great abundance, also quinces, pompions, squashes, melons, &c. Their horses in a common way are not handsome, but travel much easier and are much more hardy than ours in England. Of wild beasts there are bears, wolves, panthers and deer, which decrease as the inhabitants increase: also foxes, raccoons, otters, musk-rats, opossums, &c. On the sea-coast and bay are numerous quantities of flies and mosquitoes, which extremely annoy both man and beast by their biting and injecting a poisonous quality, which is painful to bear.

and Esther White, both eminent in the minis try, particularly the former they visited Friends in Great Britain, &c. in company, in the year 1745, to great satisfaction: they are now far advanced in years. I visited them to my spiritual comfort and refreshment.

First-day, the 1st of twelfth month, attended a meeting at Marshey creek, where were some of the people called Nicholites and also of other professions. After taking some refreshment at William Edmundson's, at whose house we had lodged the night before, we bent our course toward Little Choptank. The wind blew very hard, and we had to pass over a bad and dan gerous causeway about half a mile long; it was with great difficulty we got our horses through without being mired: at the end of Fourth-day, 13th of eleventh month, was this causeway was a ferry over Choptank held a meeting for the Negroes; the service river. When we came to the river-side, we that day fell on Sarah Morris, Samuel Emlen, were all afraid; the ferrymen said, the wind and John Pemberton; there were few at this was so boisterous, it was not possible for us to meeting but Negroes, they generally sat so- get over but with the greatest danger. We berly, and conducted themselves well; these overtook three Negroes who were also going meetings for the benefit of the poor Africans over; one of them said he had been used to are held quarterly. Fifth-day, left the city in that sort of work, and he did not fear but that company with John Pemberton. My late com- we should get over very well. For my own panion Joshua Thompson returned home, hav-part, I was very much discouraged, and exing travelled with me upwards of two thou- ceedingly loath to come away from our friend sand miles, whose company was very agreeable William Edmundson's house; but my compan and useful, he being an elder worthy of double ion was very much for it, so, in condescension honour. We passed over the river Schuylkill to him I complied and set forward. We all to Derby, where there was a marriage of a son of us got into the boat, being nine in number of William Horne, a ministering Friend well besides three horses. The wind being exceedknown in England for his services there in the ing strong, it was with great difficulty we year 1762. Sarah Morris was at this meeting; could put off from the shore, which at length and it was an opportunity of Divine favour we did, and soon got driven far beyond the to many, which our souls were made thank- usual place of landing; the wind being ahead fully to acknowledge. The same evening to of us, we could make very little way across Springfield, and lodged at Mordecai Yarnall's, the river, and it increasing, blew the water an excellent minister of the Gospel, who visited out of the river like rain; also at the same Old England in the year 1757, and whose ser- time it froze very severely, so that we became vices are remembered by many. Seventh-day quite benumbed with cold. The men rowed to Providence, then to Chester, and lodged at with all their might, and sometimes got a little Joshua Hoskins's, who was husband to Jane forward, at other times lost what they had Hoskins, an able and well approved minister, gained, and night coming on, there was very who visited Europe in company with Elizabeth little better prospect than our being cast upon Hudson in the years 1749 and 1750. Third- a wide swampy marsh, where was no landing,