. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . l barracksfor the reception of the Kings troops, and has the finestmarket of any on the continent, being of a prodigiousextent and well built, and as well regulated and supplied;in short, scarce anything can afford a more beautiful land-scape than this city and the adjacent country, which forsome miles may be compared to a well-regulated flourish-ing garden, being improved, as I have been informed, toas great advantage as almost any lands in Europe; thereare in the city about four thousand hous
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . l barracksfor the reception of the Kings troops, and has the finestmarket of any on the continent, being of a prodigiousextent and well built, and as well regulated and supplied;in short, scarce anything can afford a more beautiful land-scape than this city and the adjacent country, which forsome miles may be compared to a well-regulated flourish-ing garden, being improved, as I have been informed, toas great advantage as almost any lands in Europe; thereare in the city about four thousand houses, and abouttwenty thousand inhabitants—which he takes for granted ^ A Concise Account of North America, etc., by Major RobertRogers, London, 1765. With all its crudities, this is a most in-teresting- and excellent description of the English possessions inNorth America at this time. This account is taken from the re-print of 1767, which was edited and somewhat condensed in thatissue. A copy of the original edition also may be seen at the Penn-sylvania Historical Society. Il fBmV[3<=\ 1^ ii. X fC. V^ A -J^ P 8 M « ^ > w iwiiiMii^wei—iiBaii*! ??«JMW^ii KMon^aMaMk J,J^ ...^..^z:^ *»i\ •08 :,7;^ ^ ^
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