warmly, "for it is the greatest crime among them not to show the utmost civility to strangers; and if I were obliged to live out of my native country, I should not long be puzzled in finding a place of retirement, which should be Philadelphia. There the oppressed in fortune
_8.png)
"Along the River's Bank"
or principles may find a happy Asylum, and drop quietly to their graves without fear or want."
The "well-favoured" Christian children born in this peaceful community had their young lives saddened by being sent as regularly and pitilessly to school as if merry England had been their home; for the Quaker colonists were equally averse to extremes of ignorance or of erudition. Before Philadelphia was five years of
