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alongside the mills. The neighbourhood of these mills is romantic and beautiful, and is one amongst the many pleasand spots I have seen in this coun- try. Indeed the town of Wilmington has every advantage; its situation being on a rising ground, and its streets, intersecting each other at right angles. 10th Month, 12th, was spent pleasantly at Wilmington, in the families of J. G. and S. S. In this place, as is many towns in this coun- try, I observed that a considerable proportion of the inhabitants were friends, and what to an Englishman had something remarkable in it, I noticed that the females at the inn, where I took my place in the stage, appeared like plain consist- ent friends, and indeed they were such, for ought I know to the contrary. 10th Month, 13th. I took my departure for Phila-delphia, the road being through a pleasant country, diversified with hill and dale, and commanding a fine prospect of the Delaware and the opposite Jersey shore, nearly all the way. In passing by some farms near Wilmington, I was struck with the sight of several fields of Indian corn, the crops on which were finer than any I had ever before seen. On inquiry, I found they belonged to an innkeeper, who had manured them well. From various observa- tions I have made, I have no doubt that the land