Newark—noted for its fine breed of fat mosquitoes—sting through the
thickest boots[21]—story about _Gallynippers_—Archy Gifford and his man
Caliban—jolly fat fellows—a knowing traveller always judges of
everything by the innkeepers and waiters[22]—set down Newark people all
fat as butter—learned dissertation on Archy Gifford’s green coat, with
philosophical reasons why the Newarkites wear red worsted nightcaps, and
turn their noses to the south when the wind blows—Newark academy full of
windows—sunshine excellent to make little boys grow—Elizabethtown—fine
girls—vile mosquitoes—plenty of oysters—quere, have oysters any
feeling?—good story about the fox catching them by his tail—ergo, foxes
might be of great use in the pearl fishery—landlord member of the
legislature—treats everybody who has a vote—mem. all the innkeepers
members of the legislature in New Jersey; Bridge-town, vulgarly called
_Spank-town_, from a story of quondam parson and his wife—real name,
according to Linkum Fidelius, Bridge-town, from _bridge_, a contrivance
to get dry shod over a river or brook; and _town_, an appellation given
in America to the accidental assemblage of a church, a tavern, and a
blacksmith’s shop—Linkum as right as my left leg;—Rahway River—good
place for gun-boats—wonder why Mr. Jefferson don’t send a _river fleet_
here, to protect the hay vessels?—Woodbridge—landlady mending her
husband’s breeches—sublime apostrophe to conjugal affection and the fair
sex;[23]—Woodbridge famous for its crab-fishery—sentimental
correspondence between a crab and a lobster—digression to Abelard and
Eloisa;—mem. when the moon is in _Pisces_, she plays the devil with the
crabs.