. Wilson's railroad guide from New-York to Washington; with maps of New-York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; and sectional maps of the routes . es S \V. Jersey City; partly inMiddlesex and partly in Somer-set counties, Albany Street be-ing the dividing line. It as a city in 1734,and contains eight churches,two banks, about stores,and 1000 dwellings. The firstDutch Church was built in first Presbyterian Churchwas erected before 172(3, burnedby the British during the Revo-lutionary War. Rutgers Col-lege was founded by ministersof the Dutch Reformed Churchin 1770. The
. Wilson's railroad guide from New-York to Washington; with maps of New-York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; and sectional maps of the routes . es S \V. Jersey City; partly inMiddlesex and partly in Somer-set counties, Albany Street be-ing the dividing line. It as a city in 1734,and contains eight churches,two banks, about stores,and 1000 dwellings. The firstDutch Church was built in first Presbyterian Churchwas erected before 172(3, burnedby the British during the Revo-lutionary War. Rutgers Col-lege was founded by ministersof the Dutch Reformed Churchin 1770. The building is aJiandsome stone edifice, of threestories. It has a President, tenProfessors, and a valuable Li-brary of about r2,000 fourth Wednes-day in July. From the site of I heCollege, which is on the hill,fhere is an extensive prospect,terminated on the north bymountains, and on the east bythe Bay. The streets on theriver are narrow and crooked,and the ground low. Those onthe upper bank are wide, andmany of the dwellings are ele-gant and surrounded by finegardens. The streets are gfu-earlly paved. A toll-bridge. FROM NEW-YORK TO WASHINGTON. 27 the Raritan, originally built in 179G, and rebuilt in 1811, at acost of .$86,687, 1000 feet lon^, resting on 11 stone piers and superstructure is of wood, and divided into two carriage railroad bridge (•see p. 4,} is a little above. Tlie Delaware andRaritan canal commences here and extends to Trenton, distant 42miles. It was commenced by a joint stock company in 1831, andunited with the Camden and Amboy Railroad Co. the same year ; andunder this joint management tlie work was completed in 1834, at acost, including the Delaware feeder (which commences at Bordentovvnand is navigable), of $2,500,000. It is 75 feet wide and 7 deep, ad-mitting ihe^passage of sloops of 75 or 100 tons burden. The tide setsU]) the Raritan 2 miles above the city, and the river admits vessels of200 tons to its wharv
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