As I have here mentioned New York, and before given a short account of the cities of Philadelphia and Boston, it would be a disrespect shown to this elegant one not to take notice of it, as well as, in some measure debarring the reader from such information as may not be disagreeable; but not being of that note or consequence with the others, I shall briefly observe, that New York is a very fine city, and the capital of the province of that name: it contains about 300O houses, and near 9000 inhabitants. The houses are all well built, and the meanest of them said to be worth £100 sterling, which cannot be said of the city of the same name, nor of any other in England.

Their conversation is polite, and their furniture, dress, and manner of living, quite elegant. In drinking and gallantry they exceed any city in America.

The great church is a very handsome edifice, and built in 1695. Here is also a Dutch church, a French church, and a Lutheran church. The inhabitants of Dutch extraction make a considerable part of the town, and most of them speak English.