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spent about a week in the company of my friends in Philadelphia. 5th Month, 24th. I put 10 hogsheads of to- bacco on board the Rose, Captain Hathaway, for which I paid fourpence halfpenny per pound. The Captain offering to take with him any little matter I was inclined to put under his care, I transmitted a packet of letters, and several little articles for my family; and with them eight land tortoises, which all got safely to England. In the same vessel M. R. took her passage home, in company with an English family, and a young man from Lan-caster, in Pennsylvania. They were favoured to arrive safe at Liverpool; but this poor young man, taking his passage in the Ontario, on his in-tended return to America, was lost at sea; the ship having never been heard of after she left Liverpool. After parting with Capt. H. I set out for New-York, accompanied by J. J. and his sister; and having five other friends in company, we took the whole stage to ourselves, as we were all going to attend the yearly meeting in New-York. On our way we passed the Delaware at Trenton, where we dined. I have remarked that some people in Ame- rica, have a great predeliction for wearing boots, and for smoking segars. Even children of five or six years of age, are sometimes seen, in their