While the yellow fever was raging in this city, in the year 1793, when few vessels would venture nearer than Fort Miflin; a german captain in _this trade_ arrived in the river, and hearing that such was the fatal nature of the infection, that a sufficient number of nurses could not be procured to attend the sick for any sum, conceived the philanthropic idea of supplying this deficiency from his _redemption passengers!_ actuated by this _humane motive_, he sailed boldly up to the city, and _advertised_[Footnote: I have preserved this advertisement, and several others equally curious.] his _cargo_ for sale:-- "A few _healthy_ servants, generally between seventeen and twenty-one years of age; their times will be disposed of, by applying on board the brig." Generous soul! thus nobly to sacrifice his _own countrymen, pro bono publico_. I never heard this _honest_ german was _properly_ rewarded; but virtue is it's own reward, and there is no doubt but the consciousness of having performed _such_ an action is quite _sufficient_; at least, it would be to Yours, &c., * * * * * _Boston, September 23rd, 1797._ DEAR FRIEND, I set out for New York on the afternoon of the 16th. We had a pleasant journey, over a rich and well cultivated tract of country, to Bristol. We soon after crossed the Delaware, in a scow constructed to carry the stage and horses over in a few minutes, without even taking the latter from the carriage. We then entered the state of Jersey, and slept at Trenton, which we left before sunrise the next morning; a circumstance I regretted, as I wished to see the falls of the river Delaware in that neighbourhood, which I am informed are worthy the attention of a traveller. Our journey across the Jerseys was pleasant; but the land is by no means so rich as on the other side of the Delaware. Pennsylvania is, in my opinion, justly called the Garden of America, at least of the United States _East_ of the Allegany Mountains. We dined at New Brunswick, where there is a wooden bridge, with stone piers, thrown over a broad and rapid river. Our landlord informed us, several englishmen assured him, "It was _very like_ Westminster Bridge." Though my conscience would not permit me, _exactly_ to chime with my countrymen, it is but justice to acknowledge, that when the infant state of the country is considered, it is a work of equal magnitude, boldly designed, and neatly executed. About four in the afternoon, we embarked in a small vessel for New York, which is situate on an island, in a bay, formed by the conflux of two large rivers, the Hudson or North, and the East river.