rt stay in Bordentown Mr. Isaac Gabel kindly acted as my
guide, and we explored the Bonaparte Park, which is on the outskirts of
the town. The grounds are beautifully laid out. Some of the old houses
of the ex-king's friends and attendants still remain in a fair state of
preservation. The elegant residence of Joseph Bonaparte, or the Count de
Surveilliers, which was always open to American visitors of all classes,
was torn down by Mr. Henry Beckett, an Englishman in the diplomatic
service of the British government, who purchased this property some
years after the Count returned to Europe, and erected a more elaborate
mansion near the old site. The old citizens of Bordentown hold in
grateful remembrance the favors showered upon them by Joseph Bonaparte
and his family, who seem to have lived a democratic life in the grand
old park. The Count returned to France in 1838, and never visited the
United States again. New Jersey had welcomed the exiled monarch, and had
given him certain legal privileges in property rights which New York had
refused him; so he settled upon the lovely shores of the fair Delaware,
and lavished his wealth upon the people of the state which had so kindly
received him. The citizens of neighboring states becoming somewhat
jealous of the good luck that had befallen New Jersey in her capture of
the Spanish king, applied to the state the cognomen of "New Spain," and
called the inhabitants thereof "Spaniards."

The Delaware River, the Makeriskitton of the savage, upon whose noble
waters my paper canoe was now to carry me southward, has its sources in
the western declivity of the Catskill Mountains, in the state of New
York. It is fed by two tributary streams, the Oquago (or Coquago) and
the Popacton, which unite their waters at the boundary line of
Pennsylvania, at the northeast end of the state, from which it flows
southward seventy miles, separating the Empire and Keystone states. When
near Port Jervis, which town is connected with Rondout, on the Hudson
River, by the Hudson and Delaware Canal, the Delaware turns sharply to
the southwest, and becomes the boundary line between the states of New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. Below Easton the river again takes a
southeasterly course, and flowing past Trenton, Bristol, Bordentown,
Burlington, Philadelphia, Camden, Newcastle, and Delaware City, empties
its waters into Delaware Bay about forty miles below Philadelphia.

This river has about the same length as the H