laid with a flat piece of cast iron about two feet and a-half square. This he ordered removed and relaid with brick. After removing the plate where it had lain probably eighty or a hundred years, as the house is one of the oldest in that part of the city, he had it turned over and the underside cleaned

height of which, for about a mile above and below us, was ten feet above the surface of the water at the shores. It did not, however, effect our works so much as might have been ex- pected. The outer ends of the floats had settled down about a foot by the thaw; but this hove them up some- thing worse

lot was on the north side of West King street, and extended from Prince to Water streets. The Prison lots were numbered 273 and 274 on the Hamilton plan. Lots Nos. 654 and 655 were set aside for maga- zine lots for the storage of powder, etc. On April 13, 1682, William Penn granted to Richard Wooler