printing-office in the place, and a paper-mill in the vicinity. It is a situation favourable to trade and manufactures, and every thing looks lively and thriving. The land in the neighbourhood appears rich and fertile, and is highly cultivated.[50]
We dined at Horne's on the top of the South Mountain, and slept at Oxford, a small town which has been built nine years, but does not appear to much advantage.[51]
Lord's Day, June 19
Wishing to attend public worship at Yorktown, we rose early this morning and arrived there by nine o'clock; having passed {74} through Abbot's Town, a pretty flourishing village, the chief town of Adams County.[52]
Monday, June 20
Yorktown is a fine place, in pleasantness vying with Lancaster, in neatness exceeding it. It is a post-town, and capital of the county of York. It is situated on the east side of Codorus Creek, which empties into the Susquehannah. It is regularly laid out, principally on two main streets which cross each other at right angles. It contains more than five hundred houses, several of which are handsomely built of brick, and some of stone. The public buildings are a German Lutheran, a German Calvinist, a Presbyterian, a Roman Catholic, and a
