This street, as I afterwards found, tended to Schuylkill, and soon extricated me from houses.

I could not cross this river without payment of toll.

It was requisite to cross it in order to reach that part of the country whither I was desirous of going; but how should I effect my passage?
I knew of no ford, and the smallest expense exceeded my capacity.

Ten thousand guineas and a farthing were equally remote from nothing, and nothing was the portion allotted to me.
While my mind was thus occupied, I turned up one of the streets which tend northward.

It was, for some length, uninhabited and unpaved.
Presently I reached a pavement, and a painted fence, along which a row of poplars was planted.