lled in honour of the Duke of Perth. It
is at the mouth of the Rantan, which runs into Sandyhook bay, and is able
to contain five hundred ships. The plan of this city was laid out very
regularly and spaciously. The plot of ground was divided into one
hundred and fifty shares, for purchasers to build upon. Four acres are
preserved for a market-place, and three for public wharfage--very useful
things, if there had been inhabitants, trade, and shipping. The town
being thus skilfully and commodiously laid out, some Scots began
building, especially a house for the governor, which was then as little
wanted as a wharf or a market. The whole plan of the city consists of
one thousand and seventy-nine acres, and there are two good roads from it
to Piscataqua and Woodbridge. Ships in one tide can come up to the port,
and be at the merchants' doors, though of three hundred tons burden; but
the Perth city has not above two or three hundred men, women, and
children.

From thence over a ferry, into a town called Trent-town, in
Staten-island; and from thence over Brunswick ferry to East Jersey, where
he found out a Mr. Matthews, a miller, who formerly lived at Whitechurch,
near Lime, in Dorset; and, making use of his old story of having been
taken, he was received by Mr. Matthews with great hospitality; he kept
him three days in his house, and would have entertained him still longer.
At his departure he gave him a guinea, with several letters of
recommendation, and remitted letters by him to his friends in England,
sending his servant with him as far as Elizabeth town, which is three
miles within a creek opposite to the west end of Staten-island. Here the
first English settlement was made, and if any place in the Jerseys may be
said to have thriven, it is this; for, notwithstanding the endeavours of
the proprietors to make a capital of Perth, by calling it a city,
Elizabeth town has near six times the number of inhabitants, containing
above two hundred and fifty families, and forty thousand acres of land
laid out. Here the proprietors have a plantation, which goes by the name
of their farm. The government of the province is here managed, courts
are kept, assemblies held, and the greatest part of the trade of the
colony carried on. Here he met with one Mr. Nicholas, a Cornish man, who
gave him a ten-shilling bill, and recommended him to one Mr. Anderson, in
Long-island, sometimes called Nassau-island, stretching from Fairfield