Dr. Davidson. About 11 the Society arriv’d, when Dr. Mitchill began the Oration, or rather Narration, in the Indian style, relating the fictitious history of Tammany, interlarded with the Indian mythology. A collectin was made for the Charity School, to which I contributed 2/. About dusk I went with mamma to Mrs. Bailey’s.
   21st. Rose at 4. Breakfasted and call’d on A. Teibout before 6. After he had put his shop in order we set off for Paules Hook Ferry-house. Stepp’d into a Boat which was just going off, and after a short passage found ourselves transported into the delightfully varied scenes of New Jersey. We walk’d on, enjoying the beautiful and romantic prospects around us; pass’d over the New-Bridge of Hackinsack River, and took the road leading to the Mines, being a cause way from’d through the Cedar swamp. Stopp’d at a little cottage and refresh’d ourselves with a drink of Buttermilk. About 10, we found ourselves at the mines.* Some

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*This copper mine was in the present town of Harrison, east of Belleville, but very near to it. It was worked for twenty years or more before the Revolution, the steam engine referred to being imported from England. While the war was going on labor ceased. It had not been resumed long, apparently, when Anderson visited it, and this renewal of work did not prove to be permanent. Some of the cuttings and mounds of earth are still to be seen.