He was become the prey of a gloomy and unsociable grief.
His walks were limited to the bank of the Delaware.

This bank is an artificial one.

Reeds and the river are on one side, and a watery marsh on the other, in that part which bounded his lands, and which extended from the mouth of Hollander's creek to that of Schuylkill.

No scene can be imagined less enticing to a lover of the picturesque than this.

The shore is deformed with mud, and incumbered with a forest of reeds.