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neither so industreous, sober, or well
informed in farming as the Germans
who are the most valuable settlers.

To Lewisbourgh (lately [Left margin] 144
called Harristown) on the other side of
the Susquahannah, a good road, the ferry
1 mile 10 rood wide; horse [1f?], light waggon
[5f?] Loaded 7/6, plenty of Salmon Rock, pike
trout & passed a delightful Island, cultivated
& richly wooded, 3 1/2 miles distant Consecongens
creek on which are many mills, has about
200 real houses some brick & many good
Loghouses of two stories & likely to encrease [Left margin] 4

June 25 . . . To Carlisle town & borough,
Cumberland County well cultivated in the town 500 houses
a few brick but mostly of blue lime stone, well
built generally 2 story high, the Lots
60 front 240 deep, a Court house, Goal
Market, Episcopal, Presbeterean & a German
Church, - Dickensons College lately founded
at present 70 Students, 35 attend the
Classicks, Chronoly & Geogra, 20' natural philosophy - 12 good houses
now building, a Red soil on a blue lime
stone - 1/2 mile from the town, theres
large range of good brick buildings
for stores &c. each 282 feet long 24 broad
Do. Barracks of like dementions, hospital
Magazine Foundery &c. of stone all built during
the War & to which the Aca College
is to be removed, when fitted for the
purpose, Latent spring, running about
80 or 100 yards to the Westward, on which
are Mills ^{vide plan page 68} -- they have a tollerable
[Left margin] on the next page library & apparatus for Natural Philosop.
[Left margin] Oct 26 Elect. Mashene [????opes] vide plan of Buildings [Right margin] 16
To Shipingsbourgh 500 houses mostly Log, at the end
[Left margin] [symbol] of which is middle spring on which are 2 mills - [Right margin] 21
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