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65 1288 [written in the right margin] Wright 3 mile to the Southward & returned to Lancaster by blue stone rock Road 28 farms, generally well fenced & kept in good order _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 [written in the right margin] Sep 2 [written in the left margin] _ _ _ To Mr John Morris; & Webber tavern plantation; on the Philadelphia road. 19 mile easy hills, soil rich & fertile on blue lime stone, often united with white flint, many farms highly cultivated, with large portions of good wood land, excellent timber, from whence to Philadelphia generally poor land except in vales went 3 mile to the northward to Mr Monisi farm poor land _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 [written in the right margin] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ To Wilmington _ crossed the Philadelphia by a bye road, 13 mile poor land except in glades between the hills where are indifferent farms next [9?] mile better land & farms. slept 3 [written in the left margin] at Webbs tavern _ the next 12 mile worn out land, yet many settlers & well cultivated ______ 33 [written in the right margin] Wilmington is a clean airy neat town, many good brick houses 2 & 3 Stories; there are 9 parellel streets with the Dellaware which leads down to Christene Creek, where are 5 wharfs 18 feet water where Vessells Load, has 2 building on the stocks near 100 ton. from hence 3 mile to the SW to the Delaware 10 streets at Right Angles, 3 Markets an Acadamy endowed, Swedish Lutheran 2 presbeterian & a Baptist Church, Quaker meeting, near 500 houses & 3500 Inhabitants 1366 [written in the right margin]