The largest city of this group is =Camden=, on the Delaware opposite Philadelphia, founded about 1680 and known in colonial days as Cooper's Ferry. It shares with Philadelphia the advantages of the deep-water route to the ocean through the Delaware River and Bay. It owes Its first industrial impulse to the opening of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. From It many railroads radiate to all parts of the state and one crosses the Delaware to Pennsylvania. Direct communication with Philadelphia is maintained by ferries. More rapid communication will soon be obtained when the proposed tunnels under the Delaware are completed. Its industries, which are of the most varied character, have increased with astonishing rapidity. The most extensive are the manufacture of talking machines and shipbuilding. Here the largest battleships and merchant vessels can be built. One of the shipbuilding plants is the largest in the country. Other extensive industries are foundries, machine shops, woolen mills, chemical works, factories for the manufacture of cigars, paints, candies, leather, licorice, linoleum, writing pens, and the preparation of soups. [Illustration: Canning factory, filling and capping cans, Camden] [Illustration: Camden, Philadelphia, and vicinity] Northeast of Camden, on the Delaware, are =Riverside= and =Beverly=, which are important centers of manufacture and of truck farming. Farther up is =Burlington=, which was settled in 1677 and was the capital of West Jersey. It has ample facilities for transportation by rail and water. Its interests are both agricultural and manufacturing. Its principal products are shoes, iron pipe, and hardware. =Bordentown=, the southwestern terminus of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, also has excellent transportation facilities. Its most important industries are the canning of vegetables and the manufacture of yarns and clay products. In the interior, the old town. =Mount Holly=, is rich in agricultural products and has industries which produce hosiery, shoes, and tapestry goods. East and southeast of Camden are =Merchantville=, =Moorestown=, =Collingswood=, and =Haddonfield=, which are distinctively residential towns, but in which vegetable raising is an important industry. =Gloucester=, on the Delaware south of Camden, is a growing industrial center. Its products are yarns, paper, and gas mantles. It has communication with Philadelphia by ferries, which transport the produce of the rich truck and fruit farms of the surrounding country to that city. =Woodbury= is a prosperous residential town with industries which make pianos and glass bottles. Next to the southward are Swedesboro, =Glassboro=, and =Clayton=, whose principal industrial activities are connected with the making of glass and the raising and canning of vegetables and fruits.