At the point where the cutting is deepest, a light bridge is thrown across, which, from its great height, forms a striking object to the travellers passing below it.

Every boat that passes this canal pays a toll of twenty dollars.
Nothing can be less interesting than that part of the state of Delaware through which this cut passes, the Mississippi hardly excepted.

At one, we reached the Delaware river, at a point nearly opposite Delaware Fort, which looks recently built, and is very handsome.

[This fort was destroyed by fire a few months afterwards.] Here we again changed our vessel, and got on board another of their noble steam-boats; both these changes were made with the greatest regularity and dispatch.
There is nothing remarkable in the scenery of the Delaware.

The stream is wide and the banks are flat; a short distance before you reach Philadelphia two large buildings of singular appearance strike the eye.